Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
THICH NHAT HANHKeeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.
THICH NHAT HANHThere is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
THICH NHAT HANHLetting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
THICH NHAT HANHWhen you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
THICH NHAT HANHSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
THICH NHAT HANHThe way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
THICH NHAT HANHPeople 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 HANHBecause you are alive, everything is possible.
THICH NHAT HANHWhen we change our daily lives – the way we think, speak and act – we change the world.
THICH NHAT HANHYou have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
THICH NHAT HANHAnger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
THICH NHAT HANHIn true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
THICH NHAT HANHTo be loved means to be recognized as existing.
THICH NHAT HANHThe greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
THICH NHAT HANHDeep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.
THICH NHAT HANHWithout suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.
THICH NHAT HANH