More Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for 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 or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
