Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — 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
