If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing… — 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
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 know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him… — 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
When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how… — 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
We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance… — 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
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 you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already… — 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
