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"50 Nhat Hanh Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 October 1926 | Monk |

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Sometime Source Smile Joy
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Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Alive Being Many Miracle
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We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Allow Bodies Genuinely Heal
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Carry Communication Earth Environment
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We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

After Because Begin Continue
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Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Beings Compassion Fill Hearts
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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
Available Each Moment More
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Beautiful Because Life Make
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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Basic Daily Daily Life Everyone
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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Cannot Ignore Know Love
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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Bloom Deal Just Make
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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Actions Artistic Human Human Actions
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Enemies Enemy Governments Invent
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With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Afraid Anything Because Child
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Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Alive Always Aware Being
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It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Available Be Happy Conditions Enough
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Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Condition Every Every Time Go
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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Bear Because Believe Better
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When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

About Always Another Chance
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Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Away Buddhism Cause Confront
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We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Biggest Bodies Cease Complete
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Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Behind Difficult Even Experience
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Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

Fearlessness Free Joy Only
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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Anger Capacity Embrace Fear
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It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Art Chronic Clear Creative
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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Beauty Born Connection Earth
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Anger Bottom Breath Coming
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There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
There No Happiness Way
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Benefit Entire Everyone Family
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The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Anxieties Been Consume Consumption
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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Abandon All Day Appear Ask
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Been Civilisation Cosmos Destroyed
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Body Different Different Way Get
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You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Also Child Come Deep
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Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Anyone Aware Being Breath
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Familiar Fear Go Hard
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To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Around Care Go Go Home
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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Aware Awareness Between Caught
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You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Bring Depend Happiness Helps
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Best How Love Offer
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
Action Any Anything Bears
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We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Come Continue Higher Knowledge
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Anymore Because Caught Free
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When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Cannot Chance Consumption Mindful
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Breath Every Every Step Filled
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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

Calm Future Hand Hope
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Encounter Inner Listening Most
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In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Deal First Heal How
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Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Angry Compassionate Help Less
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If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Back Bringing Buddhism Buddhist
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Nhat Hanh Quotes & Sayings