Thich Nhat Hanh

Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don’t take the next step.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don’t have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.

Thich Nhat Hanh

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Control the senses, practice equanimity. Live by disciplinary rules. Associate with good friends who are not lazy and live purely. Be courteous and well-mannered, and thus, full of joy. Put an end to suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Dear little child, I am your adult self. I would like to tell you that we are no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and strong feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there is no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

Thich Nhat Hanh