Thich Nhat Hanh

You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Your foot touches the Earth mindfully, and you arrive firmly in the here and the now. And suddenly you are free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Your true home is in the here and the now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A bodhisattva doesn’t have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

Thich Nhat Hanh

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Thich Nhat Hanh