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Quotes About Embrace

Anger is like a howling baby, suffering and crying. The baby needs his mother to embrace him. You are the mother for your baby, your anger. The moment you begin to practice breathing mindfully in and out, you have the energy of a mother, to cradle and embrace the baby. Just embracing your anger, just breathing in and breathing out, that is good enough. The baby will feel relief right away. All
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If you feel irritation or depression or despair, recognize their presence and practice this mantra: Dear one, I am here for you. You should talk to your depression or your anger as you would to a child. You embrace it tenderly with the energy of mindfulness and say, Dear one, I know you are there, and I am going to take care of you, just as you would with your crying baby.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You have to practice going back to your wounded child every day. You have to embrace him or her tenderly, like a big brother or a big sister.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Our world does not lack people willing to throw themselves into action. What we need are people who are capable of loving, of not taking sides so that they can embrace the whole of reality as a mother hen embraces all her chicks, with two fully spread wings.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You are doing your best in order to embrace it, and so you no longer consider your partner as an enemy to be punished. You see him or her as an ally who is still there to support you.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Any peace talks should begin with making peace with ourselves. First we need to recognize our anger, embrace it, and make peace with it. You don't fight your anger, because your anger is you. Your anger is the wounded child in you. Why should you fight your anger? The method is entirely nonviolent: awareness, mindfulness, and tenderly holding your anger within you. Like this, your anger will transform naturally.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and take care of our suffering. Suffering may be there. But with the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can embrace and take care of that suffering and nourish happiness at the same time.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When our mindfulness embraces those who we love, they will bloom like flowers
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we are.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You may like to take a moment now to look at your hand. Can you see your mother's hand in your hand? Or your father's? Look deeply into your hand. With this insight, and with all the love and care of your parents, bring your hand up to your forehead and feel the hand of your mother or father touching your forehead. Allow yourself to be cared for by your parents in you. They are always with you.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Whenever you see an unpleasant mental formation manifesting, call on the seed of mindfulness to manifest as a second energy in your mind consciousness in order to recognize, embrace, and calm the negative mental formation, so you can look deeply into the negativity to see its source.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Chinese translate Four Noble Truths as Four Wonderful Truths or Four Holy Truths. Our suffering is holy if we embrace it and look deeply into it. If we don't, it isn't holy at all.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Start where you are. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Abraza tu sufrimiento y deja que te revele el camino hacia la paz.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddha called suffering a Holy Truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering, and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If we know how to handle the little sufferings, we don't have to suffer on a daily basis. We can practice letting go of what the French call les petites miseres, the little miseries, and save our energy to embrace and soothe the true pains of illness and loss that are unavoidable.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
~ Alex Gibney
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.
~ Lydia Lunch
The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I've embraced everything else in my life.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.
~ Stacy London
Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
~ Taraji P. Henson
Embrace who you are, and if people don't understand you, that's their own problem, that's their own insecurities. They're really the one with the problem - the people who are judging you and saying negative things to you, they are really the people with the problem, not you at all.
~ Maria Brink
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
~ Russell Simmons
To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
~ Clemence Poesy