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
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness. — 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
What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we… — 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
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — 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 be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share
