Quote

May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.

Nhat Hanh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nhat Hanh
Nourish
Beings
Joy
Learn
May

More quotes by Nhat Hanh

Image
In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
Nhat Hanh
Image
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.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.
Nhat Hanh
Image
To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.
Nhat Hanh
Image
When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.
Nhat Hanh
Image
We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.
Nhat Hanh
Image
You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.
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
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.
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