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We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves. (Nhat Hanh)
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. View quote
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others. View quote
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Know that life can only be found in the present moment. View quote
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Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness. View quote
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Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. View quote
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Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. View quote
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We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering. View quote
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Our ecology should be a deep ecology-not only deep, but universal. View quote
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Without the sun, no living being could survive. Without sun, water, air, and soil, there would be no vegetables. The vegetables are the coming-together of many conditions near and far. View quote
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We are like sleepwalkers, not knowing what we are doing or where we are heading. Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps. (Nhat Hanh)
If the sun were to stop shining, the flow of our life would stop. The sun is our second heart, our heart outside of our body. It gives all life on Earth the warmth necessary for existence. View quote
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In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are. View quote
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Interbeing is the implicit order. To practice mindfulness and to look deeply into the nature of things is to discover the true nature of interbeing. There we find peace and develop the strength to be in touch with everything. With this understanding, we can easily sustain the work of loving and caring for the Earth and for each other for a long time. View quote
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We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body. View quote
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This capacity of waking up, of being aware of what is going on in your feelings, in your body, in your perceptions, in the world, is called Buddha nature, the capacity of understanding and loving. View quote
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No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. View quote
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All phenomena are interdependent. When we think of a speck of dust, a flower, or a human being, our thinking cannot break loose from the idea of unity, of one, of calculation. We see a line drawn between one and many, one and not one. But if we truly realize the interdependent nature of the dust, the flower, and the human being, we see that unity cannot exist without diversity. Unity and diversity interpenetrate each other freely. Unity is diversity, and diversity is unity. This is the principle of interbeing. View quote
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Other people can occupy your country, they can even put you in prison, but they cannot take away your true home and your freedom. View quote
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We need to protect the ecology of the Earth and the ecology of the mind, or this kind of violence and recklessness will spill over into even more areas of life. View quote
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We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of some comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self. If we want to change the situation, we must begin by being our true selves. (Nhat Hanh)
The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times - past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future." View quote
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This deep meditation brings forth non-fear, non-anger, and non-despair, the strengths we need for our work. View quote
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Real strength is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep, inner peace. If we change our daily lives-the way we think, speak, and act-we change the world. The best way to take care of the environment is to take care of the environmentalist. View quote
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Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. View quote
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Nhat Hanh

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Photo: Duc (pixiduc) from Paris, France., CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Vietnamese Clergyman
Born: October 11, 1926
Died: January 22, 2022
Quotes count: 286
Wikipedia: Nhat Hanh

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