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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life QUOTES

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life QUOTES

1 " Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

2 " Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

3 " The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21) "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

4 " Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

5 " When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

6 " The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

7 " Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

8 " 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 , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

9 " Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

10 " 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 , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

11 " When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

12 " Together with the patient, a therapist looks at the nature of the pain. Often, the therapist can uncover causes of suffering that stem from the way the patient looks at things, the beliefs he holds about himself, his culture, and the world. The therapist examines these viewpoints and beliefs with the patient, and together they help free him from the kind of prison he has been in. But the patient’s efforts are crucial. A teacher has to give birth to the teacher within his student, and a psychotherapist has to give birth to the psychotherapist within his patient. The patient’s “internal psychotherapist” can then work full-time in a very effective way. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

13 " The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves “inside the skin” of the other. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

14 " The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

15 " We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of “this” is the well-being of “that,” so we have to do things together. Every side is “our side”; there is no evil side. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

16 " Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality”: our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling. We are neither drowned in nor terrorized by the feeling, nor do we reject it. Our attitude of not clinging to or rejecting our feelings is the attitude of letting go[.] "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

17 " In the West, we are very goal oriented. We know where we want to go, and we are very directed in getting there. This may be useful, but often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

18 " Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

19 " We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.] "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

20 " Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment. "

― Thich Nhat Hanh , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life