Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation practice is also a kind of food because it nourishes us.

All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity.

Mindfulness makes you and the other person happy and free. The other person may be caught in her worries, anger, and forgetfulness, but with mindfulness you can save her and yourself.

We have to learn to build safety with our in-breath and our out-breath. We have to learn to build safety with our steps, with our way of acting and reacting, with our words and our efforts to build communication.

Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile.

The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.

In this food I see clearly the presence of the entire universe supporting my existence.

To "love our enemy" is impossible, because the moment we love him, he is no longer our enemy.

Reconciliation means to work it out within yourself so that peace can be restored. Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world, for the sake of all living beings. Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us.

Each morning when we wake up to life we see that we have a gift of twenty-four brand new hours. If

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are. We

Sitting meditation is a way to practice letting go of the things we carry needlessly. These things are nothing but obstacles to our happiness. Ease in our sitting and ease in our breathing nourishes the body and mind.

We must look death in the face, recognize and accept it, just as we look at and accept life.

Everything is in your own heart.

I think, therefore I am really not there.

A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.

Mindful observation is based on the principle of "non-duality": our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling. We are neither drowned in nor terrorized by the feeling, nor do we reject it. Our attitude of not clinging to or rejecting our feelings is the attitude of letting go[.]

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

Whatever views we hold, we should be careful not to get caught up in thinking that our view is the "best" and that only we have the truth.

When anger manifests in us, we must recognize and accept that anger is there and that it needs to be tended to. At this moment we are advised not to say anything, not to do anything out of anger. We immediately return to ourselves and invite the energy of mindfulness to manifest also

You think that you're safe when carrying your phone. But the truth is that mindfulness will do much more than a phone to protect you, to help you suffer less, and to improve your communication.

Whenever you find yourself judging your partner, go back to your in-breath and out-breath, and ask, How can I see this differently? Can I look more deeply to better understand her suffering and her difficulties?

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

Every time we buy or consume something, we may be condoning some form of killing.