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Your true home is in the here and the now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In order to rally people, governments need enemies ... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
— Nhat Hanh
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Angry words backfire upon the speaker.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
A lotus for you. A Buddha to be.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.
— Nhat Hanh
When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
— Nhat Hanh
The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We have created a culture of constant snacking, drinking, and eating.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.
— Nhat Hanh
That's why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
— Nhat Hanh
New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace is every step.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is real; it's not a dream when mindfulness is there.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In true love, there is no pride.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I am life without boundaries. The decaying of this body does not mean the end of me. I am not limited to this body.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We can walk in such a way that we arrive with each step - not walking just to get somewhere else.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
EMBRACING SUFFERING If we let the suffering come up and just take over our mind, we can be quickly overwhelmed by it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"
— Nhat Hanh
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
— Nhat Hanh
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing can heal anger except compassion.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
dwell deeply in the present moment.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.
— Nhat Hanh
Wise men mold their own character.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Mother Earth is very talented.
— Nhat Hanh
The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.
— Nhat Hanh
The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
— Nhat Hanh
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
— Nhat Hanh
This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If we study it is not to store up knowledge but to deepen our understanding. Our understanding, in turn, can only deepen as we put it into action.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
— Nhat Hanh
For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Only the present moment contains life.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Unchecked craving strangles the careless man.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
— Nhat Hanh
Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding
— Thich Nhat Hanh
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.
— Nhat Hanh
Sitting in meditation is nourishment for your spirit and nourishment for your body, as well.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.
— Nhat Hanh
Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
— Nhat Hanh
The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
— Nhat Hanh
If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is only available in the present moment.
— Nhat Hanh
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.
— Nhat Hanh
You don't have to die to enter nirvana or the Kindgom of God. You only have to dwell deeply in the present moment, right now.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Pay no attention to harsh words uttered by others.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Go slowly, breathe and smile.
— Nhat Hanh
Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If we have too many worries, fears, and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practice letting go.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
— Thich Nhat Hanh