All Nhat Hanh Quotes
- To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. Ability
- If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to… Attachment
- Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a… Brand
- What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying. Cry
- In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands… Able
- Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we… Age
- Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must… Acting
- Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are… Absolute
- You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone. Alone
- Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life. Breath
- You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions.… Action
- We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that… Abundance
- Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means… Aware
- As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love. Cultivate
- And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of… Able
- Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible. God
- The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe… Air
- It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain,… Anxiety
- The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will… Alive
- If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to… Alive
- Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of… All
- If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if… Alive
- Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to… Both
- When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your… Action
- To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing… Healing