Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher
Thich Nhat Hanh: Quotes about love
Thich Nhat Hanh is Religious leader and peace activist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ
Cultivating the Mind of Love (2005) Full Circle Publishing ISBN 81-216-0676-4
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Context: Interpenetration is an important teaching, but it still suggests that things outside of one another penetrate into each other. Interbeing is a step forward. We are already inside, so we don't have to enter. In contemporary nuclear physics, people talk about implicit order and explicit order. In the explicit order, things exist outside of each other — the table outside of the flower, the sunshine outside of the cypress tree. In the implicit order, we see that they are inside each other — the sunshine inside the cypress tree. Interbeing is the implicit order. To practice mindfulness and to look deeply into the nature of things is to discover the true nature of interbeing. There we find peace and develop the strength to be in touch with everything. With this understanding, we can easily sustain the work of loving and caring for the Earth and for each other for a long time.
Being Peace (2005)
Context: Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. Many children have told me that they cannot show me anyone who does not have this capacity. Some people allow it to develop, and some do not, but everyone has it. This capacity of waking up, of being aware of what is going on in your feelings, in your body, in your perceptions, in the world, is called Buddha nature, the capacity of understanding and loving. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
Being Peace (2005)
Context: Children understand very well that in each woman, in each man, in each child, there is capacity of waking up, of understanding, and of loving. Many children have told me that they cannot show me anyone who does not have this capacity. Some people allow it to develop, and some do not, but everyone has it. This capacity of waking up, of being aware of what is going on in your feelings, in your body, in your perceptions, in the world, is called Buddha nature, the capacity of understanding and loving. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
“In true love, you attain freedom.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
Variant: if your love is only a will to possess, its not love
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Variant: If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence
Source: No Death, No Fear
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”
Source: Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha