If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Nhat Hanh More Quotes by Nhat Hanh More Quotes From Nhat Hanh Your true home is in the here and the now. Nhat Hanh interbeingtrue-homehome If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Nhat Hanh familyspirituallife The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides. Nhat Hanh reliefsufferingtrying Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step. Nhat Hanh enjoystepstoday 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. Nhat Hanh understandingorderreality If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer. Nhat Hanh 4th-of-julyfreedomattachment If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already. Nhat Hanh futurecaremoments Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Nhat Hanh infinite-possibilitiesnothing-lasts-foreverthanks No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine. Nhat Hanh glasseswinereal Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. Nhat Hanh gratitudehealthclouds 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. Nhat Hanh changeinspirationallife When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. Nhat Hanh heal-itselfletting-gogiving The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s). Nhat Hanh threepridethinking The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. Nhat Hanh actionrealityfacts To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. Nhat Hanh smilepeacemean Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market? Nhat Hanh intellectualspiritualjoy If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. Nhat Hanh buddhistinspirationallove Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free. Nhat Hanh fearlessnessultimatejoy There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time. Nhat Hanh billsproblemworry Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong. Nhat Hanh down-andmeditationthinking
