The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent… — 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
Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of… — 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
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
We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does… — 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
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
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
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
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer… — 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
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion… — 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
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
