Quote

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Nhat Hanh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nhat Hanh
Things
Happen
Means
Happens
Around
Care
Meditate
Home
Happenings
Take
Happening
Mean
Inside

More quotes by Nhat Hanh

Image
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.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To condemn someone to death is to surrender it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Only the present moment contains life.
Nhat Hanh
Image
When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Be peace, don't just talk about it.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people this is a kind of nonviolence.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Look deeply I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
Nhat Hanh