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Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming The Tiger Within
Anger is like a howling baby, suffering and crying. Your anger is your baby. The baby needs his mother to embrace him. You are the mother.
Embrace your baby.
Anger is like a howling baby
Thich Nhat Hanh, Love In Action
Without doing anything, things can sometimes go more smoothly just because of our peaceful presence. In a small boat when a storm comes, if one person remains solid and calm, others will not panic and the boat is more likely to stay afloat.
Things go more smoothly with peaceful presence
Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming The Tiger Within
Faith is the outcome of your life. As faith continues to grow, you continue to get the energy, because faith is also an energy like love. If we look deeply into the nature of our love, we will also see our faith. When we have faith in us, we are no longer afraid of anything.
Faith is the outcome of your life
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Jesus told us to love our enemy. "Father, Forgive them, for they know not what they do." This teaching helps us know how to look at the person we consider to be the cause of our suffering. If we practice looking deeply into his situation and the causes of how he came to be the way he is now, and if we visualize ourselves as being born in his condition, we may see that we could have become exactly like him. When we do that, compassion arises in us naturally, and we see that the other person is to be helped and not punished. In that moment, our anger transforms itself into the energy of compassion. Suddenly, the one we have been calling our enemy becomes our brother or sister. This is the true teaching of Jesus.
If we practice looking deeply into his situation
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
We must also be careful to avoid ingesting toxins in the form of violent TV programs, video games, movies, magazines, and books. When we watch that kind of violence, we water our own negative seeds, or tendencies, and eventually we will think and act out of those seeds.
We water our own negative seeds
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
On the altar in my hermitage in France are images of Buddha and Jesus, and every time I light incense, I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors. I can do this because of contact with real Christians. When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. This quality is essential for dialogue.
Buddha and Jesus
Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves
Long ago I read a story about a monk who felt no anger toward the cruel king who had chopped off the monk's ear and pierced his skin with a knife. When I read that, I thought the monk must be some kind of god. That was because I did not yet know the nature of Great Compassion. The monk had no anger to hold back. All he had was a heart of love. There is nothing to prevent us from being like that monk.
The nature of great compassion
Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves
Our joys and sorrows, likes and dislikes are colored by our environment so much that often we just let our surroundings dictate our course. We go along with "public" feelings until we no longer even know our own true aspirations. We become a stranger to ourselves, molded entirely by society. . . Sometimes I feel caught between two opposing selves — the "false self" imposed by society and what I would call my "true self."
I feel caught between two opposing selves
Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home
Your faith cannot be taken away by anyone, it can only grow and grow and grow. When you nurture that kind of faith in yourself, you will never become a fanatical person because this is true faith and not the grasping at a notion.
True faith is not grasping at a notion
Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home
The fresh air is available to us twenty-four hours a day. The question is whether we have the time and awareness to enjoy it. We cannot blame the fresh air for not being there.
Having the time and awareness to enjoy something