Thich Nhat Hanh

“Beauty and goodness are there in each of us. A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking. A true teacher is so...”

“Your partner needs your attention and your watering of his or her positive seeds. Without that attention, your relationship will wither.”

“Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blo...”

“Darling, I know there is a seed of anger in you. I know that every time I water that seed, you suffer and you make me suffer too. So I make a vow to refrain from watering the seed of anger i...”

“It does not take more than one thoughtless phrase to hurt someone.”

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”

“To me, the relationship between a teacher and a student is based on on the trust that the teacher has practiced and continues ti practice what he teachers”

“Our children learn reading, writing, math, science, and other subjects in school that can help them earn a living. But ver few school programs teach young people how to live - how to deal wi...”

“You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else”

“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don'...”

“If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.”

“You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When y...”

“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies...”

“It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self...”

“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.”

“The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-...”

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”

“If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appear...”

“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”