Nhat Hanh quotes - page 6

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. (Nhat Hanh)
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. View quote
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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. View quote
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I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it. View quote
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I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. View quote
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Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now. View quote
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The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don't know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption. View quote
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When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence. View quote
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What you are looking for is already in you... You already are everything you are seeking. View quote
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To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. View quote
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Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late. (Nhat Hanh)
The leaf and his body were one. Neither possessed a separate permanent self. Neither could exist independently from the rest of the universe. View quote
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The same clouds that Buddha had seen were in the sky. Each serene step brought to life the old path and white clouds of the Buddha. The path of Buddha was beneath his very feet. View quote
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Birds' songs express joy, beauty, and purity, and evoke in us vitality and love. So many beings in the universe love us unconditionally. The trees, the water, and the air don't ask anything of us; they just love us. Even though we need this kind of love, we continue to destroy them. By destroying the animals, the air, and the trees, we are destroying ourselves. View quote
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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. View quote
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By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future. View quote
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Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred. View quote
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The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left. View quote
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With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. View quote
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The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. View quote
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Undoubtedly, even for enlightened men, however determined they may be, it is very difficult to go against the system. The question posed today is what must we do to prevent ourselves from being taken over by the system? Engaging in political or economic conflict does not seem to be the answer. (Nhat Hanh)
Venerable Svasti and the young buffalo boys were rivers that flowed from that source. Wherever the rivers flowed, the Buddha would be there. View quote
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The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. View quote
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. View quote
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. View quote
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