We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
