Quotes About Harmony

When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.

We need a small space where we can take care of our nervous system and restore our tranquility and peace.

Often, we live a life of compromise so that there's peace in the house. We buy a small peace so that we can get through the day. And if we live like that then we aren't a great person, but a cracked vase, unable to contain the rice soup.

Therefore the Lotus Sutra is like a cool breeze, a gentle rain, assuaging the stifling atmosphere of contention between the conservatives and the progressives.

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.

In the experience [of drinking tea], you are one with the tea, there is no distinction between subject and object, there is no evaluation, there is no discrimination. This pure sensation can be presented as an example of non-discriminative knowledge. It is that which introduces us to the heart of reality.

The Buddha recommends we live our daily life in this way, seeing everything in the light of interbeing. Then we will not be caught in our small self.

Interbeing" is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix "inter-" with the verb "to be," we have a new verb, "inter-be." If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. If the sunshine is not there, the forest cannot grow. In fact, nothing can grow.

True understanding happens when we dismantle the barrier between the object of understanding and the subject of understanding.

The Buddha has taught that body and mind are one. In order to go far on your monastic path, you need to know how to take care of your body.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful. Because of the presence of one member who lives in mindfulness, the entire family is reminded to live in mindfulness.

If you and your partner both have a deep aspiration, then not only will you support each other's happiness, you will bring more happiness to the world in ways that you, by yourself, cannot.

Mindful consumption is the way out of our difficulties, not just our personal difficulties, but also the way out of war, poverty, and climate crisis.

We agreed that the true enemy of man is not man. Our enemy is not outside of us. Our true enemy is the anger, hatred, and discrimination that is found in the hearts and minds of man.

Rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd

Tu verdadero hogar es aquello que el Buda llamó la isla interior, el lugar apacible que hay en tu interior. A menudo no te das cuenta de que está ahí, ni siquiera sabes dónde estás, porque hay un ambiente ruidoso tanto dentro como fuera de ti. Necesitas una cierta quietud para descubrir esa isla interior.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle

I entrust myself to Earth, Earth entrusts herself to me. I entrust myself to Buddha, Buddha entrusts herself to me.

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.

Life is a balance, and as much effort as I put into my fitness journey, I needed to put into my own mind journey, my brain is just as important, and loving myself is just as important as loving my body.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.