When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit. — 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
The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity. — 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
Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way… — 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
The Buddha said, 'Nothing can survive without food.' This is a very simple and very deep truth. Love and hate are both… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease… — 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
Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we… — 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
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which… — 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
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
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
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
In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love… — 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