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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

From Nhat Hanh

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.

From Nhat Hanh

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

From Nhat Hanh

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.

From Nhat Hanh

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.

From Nhat Hanh

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

From Nhat Hanh

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.

From Nhat Hanh

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.

From Nhat Hanh

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

From Nhat Hanh

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

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