Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment. "

Related Quotes:

" You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mother

Prayer

Earth

" When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born. "

" Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind. "

" 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. "

" Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

Step

Practice

" If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again. "

" Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. "

" We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

Possibilities

Realize

" Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. "

" Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. "

" Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work. "

" When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice. "

" You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace. "

" If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. "

" To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you. "

" There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time. "

" If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy. "

" People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore. "

" If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. "

" 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. "

" In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves. "

" Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering. "

" Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. "

" 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. "

" If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism. "

" You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy. "

" When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet. "

" In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values. "

" Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

Own

Our

" Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. "