Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies… — 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… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay… — 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
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in… — 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
