When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Happiness and suffering support each other. To be is to inter-be. It's like the left and the right. If the left is… — 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
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. — 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
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
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the… — 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
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Understanding and Love are not two separate things, but just one. To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer… — 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
