864 Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh

Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge.

When you understand, you cannot help but love. You cannot get angry.

In the West, we are very goal oriented. We know where we want to go, and we are very directed in getting there. This may be useful, but often we forget to enjoy ourselves along the route.

In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves “inside the skin” of the other.

Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.

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

Mindful observation is based on the principle of “non-duality”: our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling. We are neither drowned in nor terrorized by the feeling, nor do we reject it. Our attitude of not clinging to or rejecting our feelings is the attitude of letting go[.]