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" Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace. "

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" Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. "

Nhat Hanh

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" Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being. "

" Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. "

" 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. "

" Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have. "

" There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities. "

" The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. "

" If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. "

" One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. "

" I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice. "

" We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. "

" We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. "

" If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. "

" Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight. "

" Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. "

" Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof. "

Nhat Hanh

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" Happiness is the cessation of suffering. "

" To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people. "

" In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. "

" Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature. "

" When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. "

" In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation. "

" It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda. "

" The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left. "

Nhat Hanh

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" You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. "