Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. Nhat Hanh More Quotes by Nhat Hanh More Quotes From Nhat Hanh Find joy and peace in this very moment. Nhat Hanh momentsjoydiscovery If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful. Nhat Hanh miracleheartlove-is The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. Nhat Hanh positivityhearthappiness Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home. Nhat Hanh practicehomeheart Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation. Nhat Hanh walking-meditationletting-gohappiness When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos. Nhat Hanh cosmosblackwhite When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy. Nhat Hanh richpracticethinking Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Nhat Hanh mutual-understandingbuddhistsuffering 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. Nhat Hanh argumentblameunderstanding If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Nhat Hanh smilepeacelife It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate. Nhat Hanh understandingflowerattitude 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 practicewaternegative I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step. Nhat Hanh destinationstepshome Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. Nhat Hanh lack-of-understandingunderstandingsuffering When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it. Nhat Hanh when-you-love-someoneappreciatesuffering Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. Nhat Hanh enlightenmenthealingwater If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations? Nhat Hanh familycommunitylooks Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it. Nhat Hanh help-yourselfpleasehelping As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing. Nhat Hanh angryhumanspractice First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle. Nhat Hanh rushinglightrivers
