Nhat Hanh Quotes

I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

May we awaken from the dream that we are different.

At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

Go slowly, breathe and smile.

To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.

To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes.

If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.

Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.