73 Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Thich Nhat Hanh

Vietnamese Clergyman

Born: Oct 11, 1926

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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. Thich Nhat Hanh

First Others Ourselves Know Heal Deal How Order Need

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities. Thich Nhat Hanh

God You Believe Christianity Say Find About Person Just Just One Should Notions Many Many Levels Levels

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. Thich Nhat Hanh

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. Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness You Suffering Yourself People Will Depend Other Others Insight Wrong Wrong Things Know Your Helps Things Bring

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. Thich Nhat Hanh

Listening Problems Will Understanding Resolve Our Most Encounter Sufferings Inner

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. Thich Nhat Hanh

Life You Meditation Mindfulness Way Sun See Touch No Life Look Without Walking Get Different Body Your Helps Suddenly Different Way

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. Thich Nhat Hanh

Love Time Generation Enough Way Learn Because How Continue Begin Intelligent After Loving To Love Now Species

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. Thich Nhat Hanh

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness. Thich Nhat Hanh

Food You Culture Darkness Opportunity Spirituality Goodness Practice Action Somehow Support Buddhist Left Offering Then Realm Monk

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation. Thich Nhat Hanh

Sit Down Our Brothers Brothers And Sisters Lay Feel Practicing Walking Sisters Sitting Happiest Who Moments Mediation Presence

When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. Thich Nhat Hanh

Family Father Big Other Kind Temple Atmosphere Brothers Small Like Became Quite Where Younger Your Lived Novice Monk Monks

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. Thich Nhat Hanh

You Compassion Understanding Meditation Insight Get Them Act Compelled

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. Thich Nhat Hanh

Enough Buddha Buddhas Many Need

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. Thich Nhat Hanh

Life Hope History You Peace Yourself Will Calm Few Despair Enough Later Carried Thousand Thousand Years Abolish No Hope Something Civilisation Could Accept Because Years Begin The History Of After Happened Then Planet

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