Thich Hanh
Thich Hanh
anger carried daily desire life lose practice run
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.
cannot found future life ourselves past present touch
Life can be found only in the present moment. 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.
deal people positive touch
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
anger deal foreign love
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight...I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.
deeply dwelling earth feeling green miracle moment present truly walk
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
bloom embraces gift offer others precious
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
behind enemies invent order rally
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.