We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be… — 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
When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we… — 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
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
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
Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to… — 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 need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed. — 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
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — 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
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a… — 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
Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs… — 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
