Nhat Hanh

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. _x000D_ _x000D_ When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. _x000D_ _x000D_ The practice is always to go back to oneself.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

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.

I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

Your true home is in the here and the now.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.