In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice… — 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
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as… — 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
Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person.… — 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
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
