Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already… — 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
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in… — 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 root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace… — 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
Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation… — 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
If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us. — 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
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then… — 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
