If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person. ✨ Sunday Interview - Stop Running, Start Being / In 1966, Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was forced from his homeland, but in all his years of exile, he has not wavered from his pursuit of inner and global peace. Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 1997.
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- 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. ✨ Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). Being Pe … ▶
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- There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. ✨ Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, p.21, Penguin
- Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
- Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most … ▶
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