Quotes About Healing
You discover that the main cause of your suffering is the seed of anger in you, because it has been watered too often, by yourself and by other people.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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If you can see your mother as a fragile five-year-old girl, then you can forgive her very easily with compassion. The five-year-old girl who was your mother is always alive in her and in you.
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Be in touch with what is wondrous, refreshing, and healing, both inside and around yourself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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When we pay attention to our breathing, our in-breath and out-breath become peaceful and relaxed. When we walk with attention and we just walk without thinking or being carried away by anything, we already begin to heal.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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In the process of meditation, fetters are undone; internal blocks of suffering such as resentment, fear, anger, despair, and hatred are transformed; relationships with humans and nature become easier; freedom and joy can penetrate us. We become aware of what is inside and around us;
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The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk. You have an opportunity to practice deep, compassionate listening. If you can listen to the other person with compassion, your listening is like a salve for her wound. In the practice of compassionate listening, you listen with only one purpose, which is to give the other person the chance to speak out and to suffer less.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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If you know how to go back to her and listen carefully every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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wake up to the beauties of the planet to heal yourself and wake up to the suffering of the world and try to help.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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we are advised to tell the other person that we are angry, that we suffer. "Darling, I suffer, I'm angry, and I want you to know it." Then if you are a good practitioner, you also add, "I'm doing my best to take care of my anger." And you can conclude with the third sentence, "Please, do help me
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A successful relationship depends on us recognising our own painful feelings and emotions inside—not fighting them, but accepting, embracing, and transforming them to get relief.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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When you touch deep understanding and love, you are healed.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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If we can heal our wounded child, we will not only liberate ourselves, but we will also help liberate whoever has hurt or abused us. The abuser may also have been the victimg of abuse.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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There are animals that are ruminants, like water buffalo and cows. After chewing and swallowing, they bring up the food again and they chew and swallow it again. There are people who continue to consume the suffering of the past in that way. They spend their time during the day ruminating over their own suffering from the past.
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Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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We have to make the effort to heal words by using them properly and carefully.
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There is no difference between healing ourselves and healing the Earth.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Our suffering is us, and we need to treat it with kindness and nonviolence.
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Without suffering, you cannot grow. Without suffering, you cannot get the peace and joy you deserve.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Standing in line at a grocery store or a restaurant, or waiting for the time to eat, we don't need to waste our time. We don't need to "wait" for one second. Instead, we can enjoy breathing in and out for our nourishment and healing. We can use that time to notice that we will soon be able to have food, and we can be happy and grateful during that time. Instead of waiting, we can generate joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Reconciliation means to work it out within yourself so that peace can be restored. Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world, for the sake of all living beings. Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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When anger manifests in us, we must recognize and accept that anger is there and that it needs to be tended to. At this moment we are advised not to say anything, not to do anything out of anger. We immediately return to ourselves and invite the energy of mindfulness to manifest also
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Ending our consumption of violent images and toxic communication gives us the chance to transform the violence and suffering in us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Any peace talks should begin with making peace with ourselves. First we need to recognize our anger, embrace it, and make peace with it. You don't fight your anger, because your anger is you. Your anger is the wounded child in you. Why should you fight your anger? The method is entirely nonviolent: awareness, mindfulness, and tenderly holding your anger within you. Like this, your anger will transform naturally.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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There is a film, an image stored in your consciousness. Every time your mind goes back to the past and you look at that image or watch that film, you suffer again.
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