Quote

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

Nhat Hanh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nhat Hanh
Right
Life
Appointment
Appointments
Joy
Present
Peace
Moment
Moments

More quotes by Nhat Hanh

Image
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Nhat Hanh
Image
What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.
Nhat Hanh
Image
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.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?
Nhat Hanh
Image
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.
Nhat Hanh
Image
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.
Nhat Hanh
Image
I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.
Nhat Hanh
Image
As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.
Nhat Hanh
Image
I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.
Nhat Hanh
Image
There is no birth, there is no death there is no coming, there is no going there is no same, there is no different there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.
Nhat Hanh
Image
You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
Nhat Hanh
Image
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible.
Nhat Hanh
Image
What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.
Nhat Hanh
Image
As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.
Nhat Hanh