If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with… — 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
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
Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to… — 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
Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life.… — 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
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 are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree,… — 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
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
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
In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma, the way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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
Peace ca n exist only in the present moment. It is rid iculous to say "Wait until I fi nish this, then… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking… — 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
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to… — 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
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If… — 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
Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The way we live our daily lives is what most effects the situation of the world. If we can change our daily… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our… — 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
