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
Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself. — 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
If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other. — 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
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
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of… — 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
Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the… — 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
