Quotes About Peace

Thich Nhat Hanh

If we're aware of the habit energies in us and can become more intentional in our thoughts, speech, and actions, then we can transform not only ourselves, but also our ancestors who planted the seeds. If we're able to do that, it means our ancestors are also able to smile at what is provoking them. If one person keeps calm and smiles at a provocation, the whole world will have a better chance for peace.

The Essential Discipline for Daily Use," written by the Buddhist monk Doc The from Bao Son pagoda

Thich Nhat Hanh

We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. We

There's no feeling of superiority, of inferiority, or even of equality.

Any meaningful work for peace must follow the principle of nonduality, the principle of penetration.

Most of us walk without chains, yet we aren't free. We're tethered to regret and sorrow from the past. We return to the past and continue to suffer. The past is a prison. But now you have the key to unlock the door and arrive in the present moment. You breathe in, you bring your mind home to your body, you make a step, and you arrive in the here and the

The past is no longer a prison for me. The future is not a prison either. I am able to live in the here and now and

When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing. Resting is almost as beneficial as sleeping, and you'll know that you're doing the best that you can. Bring peace to your breathing and your body so you can rest.

Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bÆ°á»›c chân nhÆ° hôn vào m?t ??t Hãy Ä'i nh?ng bÆ°á»›c chân nhÆ° vá»— v? trái ??t

We sit as if we are sitting on a lotus flower, not on a heap of burning charcoal.

When we're able to smile at a provocation, we can be aware of our ability, appreciate it, and continue in this way.

The art of dwelling happily in the present moment is the practice most needed in our time.

We can practice watering the seeds in us that we want to grow and transform. Our mind is like a garden in which there are all kinds of seeds: seeds of joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love, but also seeds of craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness.

When you sit, keep your spinal column quite straight, while allowing your body to be relaxed. When your sitting posture is relaxed and stable, you can sit comfortably for a long time.

give your anger, your despair, your fear, a bath of mindfulness every day.

The service of peace. The service of any person in need. The word service is so immense. Let's return first to a more modest scale: our families, our classmates, our friends, our own community. We must live for them—for if we cannot live for them, whom else do we think we are living for?

To practice is not to practice for ourselves alone. We practice for everyone. We should be proud to say, Violence, it may come from somewhere else, but not from me. Hatred, discrimination, it may come from somewhere else, but not from me .

When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing.

Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. So that the other can stop being a bomb, a source of pain for ourselves and others, you really have to help him to defuse the bomb. To be able to provide help, we have to have a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion in ourselves.

If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness.

Don't worry if you don't have hours to dedicate to sitting. A few moments of sitting and conscious breathing can bring great happiness.

We need to stop running after things, because even if we get the object of our desire, we won't be happy and we'll want to run after another one.