In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day. Nhat Hanh More Quotes by Nhat Hanh More Quotes From Nhat Hanh There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. Nhat Hanh real teaching people If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. Nhat Hanh peaceful benefits flower Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment. Nhat Hanh offering inspiration practice You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone. Nhat Hanh can-not yoga love Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Nhat Hanh peace-is-every-step tomorrow today It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more. Nhat Hanh inspirational-life running order Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings. Nhat Hanh compassion heart Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence. Nhat Hanh beautiful beauty meaningful Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. Nhat Hanh adversity suffering love-is You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time. Nhat Hanh happy song beautiful Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace. Nhat Hanh pain believe thinking I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it. Nhat Hanh my-smile dandelions worry It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth. Nhat Hanh community understanding kindness Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. Nhat Hanh live-your-life alive moments Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes. Nhat Hanh attachment mistake night Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation Nhat Hanh healing spring museums 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. Nhat Hanh empathy suffering listening Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. Nhat Hanh understanding compassion meditation The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction. Nhat Hanh stars truth peace Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion. Nhat Hanh eye compassion
