When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her… — 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 first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still… — 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 suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The therapist does not treat patients by simply giving them another set of beliefs. He or she tries to help them see… — 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
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
You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of… — 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
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other. — 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
If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into… — 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
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
