Nhat Hanh Quotes

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.

By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion.

When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist.

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

Happiness is not an individual matter.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.

Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

Just listen Be peace.

When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

The miracle is to walk on the earth.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Be peace, don't just talk about it.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.