Quotes About Harmony

When there are wars within us, it will not be long before we are at war with others, even those we love.

If your love is true love, it will benefit not only humans, but also animals, plants, and minerals. When you love one person, it's an opportunity for you to love everyone, all beings. Then you are going in a good direction, and that is true love. But if you love someone and you get caught up in suffering and attachment, then you get cut off from others. That's not true love.

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

Look at the tree in the front yard. The tree doesn't seem to be doing anything. It stands there, vigorous, fresh, and beautiful, and everyone profits from it. That's the miracle of being. If a tree were less than a tree, all of us would be in trouble. But if a tree is just a real tree, then there's hope and joy. That's why if you can be yourself, that is already action. Action is based on non-action; action is being. There are people who do a lot, but who also

if you practice true love, very soon that love will grow and include all of us.

True love gives us a lot of space. Because you are connected spiritually and emotionally as well as physically, you do not need to always be in the same place or doing the same thing. You do not worry if your beloved is over here today and you are over there.

No one can be by himself or herself alone. We have to inter-be, connected with everyone and everything else.

You cannot take the mind out of the body, and you cannot take the body out of the mind.

There needs to be a revolution in education. We must encourage schools to train our students in the art of living in peace and harmony. It isn't easy to learn to read, write, or solve math problems, but children manage to do it. Learning how to breathe, smile, and transform anger can also be difficult, but I have seen many young people succeed. If we teach children properly, by the time they are around twelve, they will know how to live harmoniously with others.

Everything depends on everything else. The One contains the many, and the many contains the One

A true bodhisattva is one who sees no demarcations between organic and non-organic, self and non-self, living beings and non-living beings, bodhisattvas and non-bodhisattvas.

Don't ignore your suffering, but don't forget to enjoy the wonders of life, for your sake and for the benefit of many beings.

The survival of humankind depends on our ability to stop rushing.

Thich Nhat Hanh: "The next Buddha will be a Sangha.

Our food comes from this beautiful planet. The Earth is inside us, in each morsel of food, in the air we breathe, in the water that we drink and that flows through us. Enjoy being part of the Earth and eat in such a way that allows you to be aware that each bite is deepening your connection to the planet.

That is the Buddha's way of looking. Man is not our enemy. The things we need to transform are fanaticism, rivalry, discrimination, fear, and attachment. We transcend the ideas of clenched and open, knowing that whether clenched or open, it is still a hand. With that insight, we feel very well. We no longer hate or suffer.

We can only dispel our mutual isolation when we practice mindfulness and are able to truly come home to ourselves and each other.

Meditation is not about turning yourself into a battlefield where one side fights the other, because the basis of Buddhist meditation is nonduality.

Without fear, we are able to see more clearly our connections to others. Without fear, we have more room for understanding and compassion. Without fear, we are truly free.

When you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful. You radiate your inner peace, warmth, and joy.

It is through the close interaction of the laity and the monks that the essence of Zen penetrates social life.

no deberíamos pasar mucho tiempo en una comunidad que exhiba una gran cantidad de odio y desesperación.

Part of the beauty of the monastic life lies in the ability to live simply with few desires and to consume only what you need.

Si sólo te fijas en tu sufrimiento, perderás el paraíso. No ignores tu sufrimiento, pero no te olvides tampoco de disfrutar de las maravillas de la vida, en beneficio tuyo y en el de todos los seres.