Quote

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

Nhat Hanh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nhat Hanh
Hatred
Materials
Hell
Made
Anger

More quotes by Nhat Hanh

Image
I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.
Nhat Hanh
Image
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Freedom is not given to us by anyone we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.
Nhat Hanh
Image
You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
Nhat Hanh
Image
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Reconciliation is to understand both sides to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.
Nhat Hanh
Image
When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Life is available only in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
Nhat Hanh
Image
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
Nhat Hanh
Image
I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.
Nhat Hanh
Image
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
Nhat Hanh
Image
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world
Nhat Hanh