Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Nhat Hanh More Quotes by Nhat Hanh More Quotes From Nhat Hanh Go slowly, breathe and smile. Nhat Hanh smilebreathe Freedom is the real foundation of happiness. Nhat Hanh inner-peacerealhappiness If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it? Nhat Hanh serenityhappinessgiving When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world. Nhat Hanh inner-peacebreathinghappiness There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes. Nhat Hanh peacetwoorder The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see which kinds of ideas and beliefs have led to their suffering. Many patients want to get rid of their painful feelings, but they do not want to get rid of their beliefs, the viewpoints that are the very roots of their feelings. Nhat Hanh painful-feelingsrootsideas When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold. Nhat Hanh husbandmommother In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings. Nhat Hanh buddhistanimalcountry We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing. Nhat Hanh determinationanimallooks Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, brining us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them. Nhat Hanh opportunityjoymotivational In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God. Nhat Hanh understandingfaith-in-godfaith We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. the most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us, then we will suffer less, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen. Nhat Hanh painhurtorder Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy? Nhat Hanh momentslife-isjoy It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice Nhat Hanh practicematterinspirational I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. Nhat Hanh joyinspiringorder A smile can change the situation of the world. Nhat Hanh smilesituationworld In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension. Nhat Hanh phonesmotivationalthinking When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment. Nhat Hanh blessingwritingmotivational Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening. Nhat Hanh mediapeoplethinking Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth. Nhat Hanh meanpeoplethinking
