Thich Nhat Hanh: Trending quotes (page 6)

“The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.”

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”

“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

“I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.”

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”

“A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”

“As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.”

“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

“We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.”

“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.”

“Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.”

“When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.”

“Happiness does not come from consumption of things.”

“The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).”

“Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word "art". If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don't have to talk about it at all.”

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”

“Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.”