864 Quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible. If a grain of corn is not impermanent, it can never be transformed into a stalk of corn. If the stalk were not impermanent, it could never provide us with the ear of corn we eat.

[A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.

Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service for others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. [...] Are we working for other humans, or are we just working for the name of an organization?

Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.

Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. [...] There is no being; there is only inter-being.