Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love. Nhat Hanh More Quotes by Nhat Hanh More Quotes From Nhat Hanh When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet. Nhat Hanh rushing kissing feet The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. Nhat Hanh flower beautiful peace What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying. Nhat Hanh nature sound animal Walk and touch peace every moment. Nhat Hanh flower love peace So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.] Nhat Hanh buddhist practice heart Compassion is a verb. Nhat Hanh compassion wisdom sympathy True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity. Nhat Hanh change inspirational life But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living. Nhat Hanh compassion kindness people Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Nhat Hanh uplifting hope positive Life is available only in the present moment. Nhat Hanh buddhist meditation life Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life. Nhat Hanh minutes miracle mind Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life. Nhat Hanh giving-up journey motivational With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this. Nhat Hanh breathing practice war Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. Nhat Hanh alive inspirational way The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way. Nhat Hanh anxiety growth worry You are not an observer, you are a participant. Nhat Hanh observers participants I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nhat Hanh baby giving jesus Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person. Nhat Hanh freedom blue inspiring You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions. Nhat Hanh meditation practice listening If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. Nhat Hanh smile able peace
