753 Quotes by Nhat Hanh

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    Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

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    If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

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    We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

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    In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

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    You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

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    We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

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    Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

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