Nhat Hanh Quotes About Enlightenment

We have collected for you the TOP of Nhat Hanh's best quotes about Enlightenment! Here are collected all the quotes about Enlightenment starting from the birthday of the Monk – October 11, 1926! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 12 sayings of Nhat Hanh about Enlightenment. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

    Joy  
  • The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

    "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.
  • Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

    Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.18, Harper Collins
  • Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

    Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.
  • A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

    Heart  
    Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”
  • We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

  • You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment.

  • We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

  • Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.138, Penguin
  • There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

    Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.4, Souvenir Press
  • In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com
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