When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends o. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 2
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
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 hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our h. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight...I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
I have offered teachings and practices in 35 countries, and yet in Vietnam, my books are still banned. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
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. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnamese Monk More Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes 0