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
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to… — 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
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
Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand. — 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
