Nhat Hanh Quotes
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.
Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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.
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
