If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of… — 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
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
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life -… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
