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
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
There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my… — 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
As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A… — 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
