In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to… — 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
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
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Walk and touch peace every moment. Walk and touch happiness every moment. Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take care of your own garden… — 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
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in… — 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
