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True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart QUOTES

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart QUOTES

21 " I think, therefore I am really not there. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

22 " Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. So that the other can stop being a bomb, a source of pain for ourselves and others, you really have to help him to defuse the bomb. To be able to provide help, we have to have a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion in ourselves. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

23 " Fear is born from our ignorance, from our concepts regarding life, death, being, and nonbeing. If we are able to get rig of all these concepts by touching the reality within ourselves, then nonfear will be there and the greatest relief will become possible. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

24 " We are surrounded by miracles, but we have to recognize them; otherwise there is no life. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

25 " we are joy, but we are also pain; we are understanding, but we are also ignorance "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

26 " which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence. Loving-kindness is not only the desire to make someone happy, to bring joy to a beloved person; it is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if your intention is to love this person, your love might make him or her suffer. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

27 " maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

28 " The second element of true love is compassion, karuna. This is not only the desire to ease the pain of another person, but the ability to do so. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

29 " The third element of true love is joy, mudita. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

30 " Anapanasati Sutta, or Discourse on the Practice of Mindful Breathing. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

31 " Do you have enough time to love? Can you make sure that in your everyday life you have a little time to love? "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

32 " You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

33 " one, I know that you are here, and it makes me very happy. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

34 " In Buddhism, the energy that helps us to touch life deeply is called smrti, the energy of mindfulness. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

35 " This is real meditation. In this particular meditation, all at once there is love, compassion, joy, and freedom—the four constituents of the true love of which the Buddha speaks. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

36 " You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: “Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

37 " According to Buddhism, we are dealing with samyojana, the lump of suffering within us that is translated as an “internal formation.” When you say something that makes another person suffer, that person develops an “internal formation. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart