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When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.

When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

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  1. The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  2. If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there’s tension in your body, that’s already an important insight. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  3. When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don’t try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  4. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  5. Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  6. Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won’t have to go around search for it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  7. The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  8. If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  9. This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  10. When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  11. Understanding is the other name of love. If you don’t understand, you can’t love. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  12. If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  13. Once you can communicate with yourself, you’ll be able to communicate outwardly with more clarity. The way in is the way out. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  14. If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  15. Understanding and love aren’t two separate things, they’re just one. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  16. May we eat only foods that nourish us and prevent illnes.. May we accept this food for the realization of the way of understanding and love. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  17. If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  18. Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  19. If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  20. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  21. We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone’s victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  22. When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  23. Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment – Thich Nhat Hanh
  24. The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  25. I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  26. Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  27. Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  28. Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  29. Direct experience is the only way. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  30. A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  31. Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live – because deathis a part of life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  32. [A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  33. When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there, – Thich Nhat Hanh
  34. The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  35. I have lost my smile,but don’t worry.The dandelion has it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  36. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  37. If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  38. Love has no meaning without understanding – Thich Nhat Hanh
  39. Love has no meaning without understanding – Thich Nhat Hanh
  40. We can’t wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist. – Thich Nhat Hanh

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