“Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness Copy Share Image
“Only by looking deeply into the nature of your fear can you find the way out.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“If learning is not followed by reflecting and practicing, it is not true learning.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Education Copy Share Image
“Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Life Copy Share Image
“Calming, Smiling. Present moment, Wonderful moment” — Thich Nhat Hanh Present moment Copy Share Image
“Mindful breathing is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Breathing Copy Share Image
“Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Grief Copy Share Image
True Love has the power to heal and transform the situation around us and bring a deep meaning to our lives. — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let… — Thich Nhat Hanh Obstacle Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what’s going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Awareness Copy Share Image
“Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Kindness Copy Share Image
“When you abstain from eating and drinking animal products, fewer animals are slaughtered, and you contribute less to climate degradation.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness isn’t something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we’re… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Meditation Copy Share Image
“Attachment to the false view of the self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities that exist on their own.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Belief Copy Share Image
“It’s like when you’re flying in an airplane. Whenever severe turbulence comes along, the seatbelt keeps you from getting thrown around the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“The original reality of Amitabha is our own Dharma body, It shines out brightly everywhere, in the South, North, East, and West,… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Dharma Copy Share Image
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Your action, what you do, depends on who you are. The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being.… — Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness Copy Share Image
“If you hate your body and think that it is only a source of affliction, that it contains only the roots of… — Thich Nhat Hanh Body of christ Copy Share Image
“CONCEPTS AND IDEAS are incapable of expressing reality as it is. Nirvana, the ultimate reality, cannot be described, because it is free… — Thich Nhat Hanh Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Enjoy life Copy Share Image
“When we recognize that we have a habit of replaying old events and reacting to new events as if they were the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Habits Copy Share Image
“The future is being made out of the present, so the best way to take care of the future is to take… — Thich Nhat Hanh Present moment Copy Share Image
“Our joy, our peace, our happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming our habit energies. There are positive… — Thich Nhat Hanh Big sister Copy Share Image
“You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea. Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands… — Thich Nhat Hanh Beauty of life Copy Share Image
“When we extinguish our ideas of more and less, is and is not, we attain the extinction of ideas and notions, which… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Buddhism Copy Share Image
“When you hold the hand of a child, invest one hundred percent of yourself in the act of holding her hand. When… — Thich Nhat Hanh Children Copy Share Image
“Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people;… — Thich Nhat Hanh Innocent people Copy Share Image
“When you feel overwhelmed, you’re trying too hard. That kind of energy does not help the other person and it does not… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Help Copy Share Image
“Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness. Don’t do any task in order to get it over with.… — Thich Nhat Hanh Focus Copy Share Image
“Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Immigration Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the energy that makes us fully present, fully alive in the here and the now.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Meditation Copy Share Image
“The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Future Copy Share Image
“Hell is in us, like a seed. We need to cultivate the positive within us so we can generate the energy of… — Thich Nhat Hanh Compassion Copy Share Image
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we… — Thich Nhat Hanh Life Copy Share Image
“We practice so that each moment of our life becomes real life. And, therefore, when we meditate, we sit for sitting; we… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Life Copy Share Image
“You are doing your best in order to embrace it, and so you no longer consider your partner as an enemy to… — Thich Nhat Hanh Ally Copy Share Image
“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Fear Copy Share Image