Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Many of us continue to run even in our sleep. We can never rest. In our dreams, in our nightmares, we continue to run.
As long as we're rejecting ourselves and causing harm to our bodies and minds, there's no point in talking about loving and accepting others.
When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms.
Place your left hand, palm side up, in your right palm. Let all the muscles in your hands, fingers, arms, and legs relax. Let go of everything.
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
The verses are meant to help us to bring our awareness back to what's happening in the present moment.
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
To fully experience this life as a human being, we all need to connect with our desire to realize something larger than our individual selves.
He saw the oneness of body and mind, that each and every cell of the body contained all the wisdom of the universe.
He knew that even his own father's authority was fragile and restricted - a king did not possess true freedom but was imprisoned by his position.
A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.
If we can relax when our strong emotions come, then we don't pass fear on to our children and to future generations.
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
When there are wars within us, it will not be long before we are at war with others, even those we love.
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,
Whenever I feel sad or a little fragile, I invoke their presence (the ancestors) for support, and they never fail to be there.
While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
Don't chew your worries, your suffering, or your projects. That's not good for your health. Just chew the string bean.
Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment
The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now.
We practice so that each moment of our life becomes real life. And, therefore, when we meditate, we sit for sitting; we don't sit for something else.
When you love someone, you have to offer that person the best you have. The best thing we can offer another person is our true presence.
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
The suffering and the quarreling in a family don't begin with unkindness, they begin with one person's pain and stress.
Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.
The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.
When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.
We do not have to look for God, we do not have to look for our ultimate dimension or nirvana, because we are nirvana, we are God.
What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is.
We need to look closely at our relationships to see whether they are based primarily on mutual need or on mutual happiness.
Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others.
Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are wonderful just as you are.
Releasing both victory and defeat, the tranquil minds dwell in happiness. Victory produces hostility.
Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.