Quote

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

Nhat Hanh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nhat Hanh
Moment
Moments
Past
Contains
Way
Transformation
Handle
Present
Secret
Future

More quotes by Nhat Hanh

Image
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
Nhat Hanh
Image
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Nhat Hanh
Image
At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath
Nhat Hanh
Image
Go slowly, breathe and smile.
Nhat Hanh
Image
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
Nhat Hanh
Image
We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Smile, breathe and go slowly. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
Nhat Hanh
Image
When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.
Nhat Hanh
Image
I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?
Nhat Hanh
Image
By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Our own life has to be our message.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.
Nhat Hanh
Image
If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible.
Nhat Hanh
Image
You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we inter-are? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer.
Nhat Hanh
Image
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
Nhat Hanh
Image
We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.
Nhat Hanh
Image
In true love, you attain freedom.
Nhat Hanh