“As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.” PastJoyWalksStepsRegretEvery StepSolidity Author:Nhat Hanh
“Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.” PeopleThinkingWalkingRemove Author:Oprah Winfrey
“There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.” ProblemWorryOne ThingBillsOne Thing At A Time Author:Nhat Hanh
“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.” IfsKnowsGivingHeartKindPersonsStillsHelpingPurposeSufferingChanceCompassionListeningPerceptionCapableEmptyBitternessCompassionateContinuingDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh
“I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.” WantGivenInformationMinimumMaximumPoliteness Author:Jackie Kennedy
“Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.” IfsWantGivingPersonsFeelingsHealingAdviceDeeperCommentTemptingAnother TimeGiving Advice Author:Oprah Winfrey
“Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.” PersonsHelpingExistenceListeningPerceptionDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh
“The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.” PersonsWarViolenceConflictPerceptionFoundation Author:Nhat Hanh
“The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception.” ThinkingWayWantTryingFirstsBelieveMaySidesGroupsCivilizationPerceptionTerroristMotivatedBoth SidesAbolish Author:Nhat Hanh
“Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space.” ShouldSpaceListeningPerceptionGunBombsCompassionateDeep Listening Author:Nhat Hanh
