Nhat Hanh

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.

A smile can change the situation of the world.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

We do not have to die to enter the kingdom of Heaven, In fact we have to be fully alive. When we are truly alive we see that the tree is part of Heaven and we are also part of Heaven. The whole universe is conspiring to reveal this to us. Peace is available and when we touch it everything becomes real. We become ourselves, fully alive in the present moment.