864 Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. It’s so clear. Mindfulness is the energy and practice that helps you go back to the here and now so that you encounter life.

Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone’s victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

What we need are people who are capable [...] of not taking sides so that they can embrace the whole of reality.

We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of “this” is the well-being of “that,” so we have to do things together. Every side is “our side”; there is no evil side.

If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive.