Fear Quotes

“Meditation can include visualization. If you were to draw a picture of yourself with these many umbilical cords, you would discover that there are not only five or ten, but maybe hundreds or thousands of them, and you are linked to them all.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Meditation can include visualization. If you were to draw a picture of yourself with these many umbilical cords, you would discover that there are not only five or ten, but maybe hundreds or thousands of them,”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“When you practice meditation, you begin to see things that other people do not see.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“We have to look deeply to identify the original, primal fear and desire that are behind so many of our behaviors. Every one of the fears and desires that you have today is a continuation of original fear and desire.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“So if you need others to always think well of you, that is a continuation of that same original fear.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Although we are no longer babies, we still fear that we cannot survive, that no one will take care of us. Every desire we will have in our lives has its root in this original, fundamental desire to survive.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“When you depend on someone or something else to survive, it means that a link, a kind of invisible umbilical cord, is still there between you.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“If you make a habit of mindfulness practice, when difficulties arise, you will already know what to do.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“A daily practice of mindfulness can be of enormous help. Beginning with our breath, beginning with awareness, we are able to meet whatever comes our way.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“We have no other ground. We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Writing a letter is a form of meditation practice.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Unconditional acceptance is the first step in opening the door to the miracle of forgiveness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“if we have fear, we can't be completely happy. If we're still running after the object of our desire, then we still have fear. fear goes together with craving. We want to be safe and happy, so we begin to crave a particular person or object or idea ( such as wealth or fame ) that we think will guarantee our well-being. We can never fully satisfy our craving, so we keep running and we stay scared.

Our daily lives need to have a spiritual dimension to help us develop our capacity for taking good care of our pain and fear as well as our happiness. If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: A Powerful Guide to Overcoming Uncertainties and Personal Terrors, and Finding Peace and Freedom from Anxiety, by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

“But in the beginning, we can use the teaching, the notion of impermanence, as an instrument to help bring about the insight of impermanence. It’s like a match and a flame. The match is not the flame, but the match can bring about the flame. And when we have the flame, the flame will consume the match. When we have the insight, the insight will burn away the notion. What we need for our liberation is the insight of impermanence.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through The Storm

“You might say something like this: “Dear little child, I am your adult self. I would like to tell you that we are no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and strong feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there is no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“According to Buddhism, consciousness is like a field with every possible kind of seed in it: seeds of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity; seeds of anger, fear, and anxiety; and seeds of mindfulness. Consciousness is the storehouse that contains all these seeds, all the possibilities of what might arise in your mind.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“If you’re capable of producing a feeling of joy, a feeling of happiness, then you’ll also be able to handle painful feelings. A person who doesn’t practice doesn’t know how to deal with painful feelings or strong emotions. But for those of us who are practitioners, when a painful feeling or a strong emotion comes up, we’re not victims—we know what to do. When a feeling of happiness or suffering comes up, we just recognize the feeling as it is. Even with a pleasant feeling, we just recognize it. We don’t need to grasp it or cling to it. We just practice mere recognition of what is happening, that is, a pleasant feeling.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“The first thing we can do in these situations is to acknowledge internally that the pictures we have in our head, what we think happened, may not be accurate. Our practice is to breathe and walk until we are more calm and relaxed.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Dwell peacefully in your in-breath and out-breath in the present moment. When the emotion is too strong and the breathing isn’t enough to get you to stop and relax, go out and walk. Focus on your footsteps to help your mind stop. Don’t let your mind carry you away with thinking, judgments, irritation, strong feelings, or projects. Come back to the present moment, stop, and relax.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“The teaching of the Buddha relieves us of suffering. The basis of suffering is ignorance about the true nature of self and of the world around you. When you don’t understand, you are afraid, and your fear brings you much suffering. That is why the offering of nonfear is the best kind of gift you can give, to yourself and to anyone else.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“The five remembrances are: 1.  I am of the nature to grow old. I cannot escape growing old. 2.  I am of the nature to have ill health. I cannot escape having ill health. 3.  I am of the nature to die. I cannot escape death. 4.  All that is dear to me, and everyone I love, are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. 5.  I inherit the results of my acts of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“En esta comida veo, con toda claridad, la presencia del universo entero sustentando mi existencia.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don’t go back to the past. It’s only a ghost; it’s unreal.” And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness. Reconciling with Our Past Our original fear isn’t just from our own birth and childhood; the fear we feel comes from both our own and our ancestors’ original fear.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

“Solo aquí y ahora podemos experimentar la liberación y la felicidad total.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“Cuando hacemos el esfuerzo de atender y escuchar la otra versión de la historia, nuestra comprensión aumenta, al tiempo que disminuye nuestra sensación de daño.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“El deseo de dañar que alberga el terrorista se origina en su propio sufrimiento. Quien ignora el modo de tratar su propio sufrimiento puede tratar de aliviarlo castigando a los demás.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“La capacidad de encarnar el desapego y la ausencia de miedo es un regalo mucho más precioso que el dinero o las riquezas materiales.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“aprender a cultivar la ausencia de miedo, fundamento de la verdadera felicidad.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo

“Como decía el Buda: «El pasado ya se ha ido y el futuro todavía no ha llegado. Solo existe un momento en el que podemos acceder a la vida y ese momento es el presente».”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Miedo