Top 450 Nhat Hanh Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

352. “You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.”

— Nhat Hanh

353. “The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.”

— Nhat Hanh

354. “The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.”

— Nhat Hanh

355. “I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.”

— Nhat Hanh

356. “When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind – a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.”

— Nhat Hanh

357. “When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness.”

— Nhat Hanh

358. “I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.”

— Nhat Hanh

359. “Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.”

— Nhat Hanh

360. “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.”

— Nhat Hanh

361. “Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.”

— Nhat Hanh

362. “Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.”

— Nhat Hanh

363. “Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.”

— Nhat Hanh

364. “Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.”

— Nhat Hanh

365. “It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice.”

— Nhat Hanh

366. “Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.”

— Nhat Hanh

367. “Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.”

— Nhat Hanh

368. “Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.”

— Nhat Hanh

369. “If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.”

— Nhat Hanh

370. “If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.”

— Nhat Hanh

371. “No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.”

— Nhat Hanh

372. “In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.”

— Nhat Hanh

373. “Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.”

— Nhat Hanh

374. “I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.”

— Nhat Hanh

375. “May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.”

— Nhat Hanh

376. “The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.”

— Nhat Hanh

377. “When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.”

— Nhat Hanh

378. “There’s no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.”

— Nhat Hanh

379. “If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.”

— Nhat Hanh

380. “Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.”

— Nhat Hanh

381. “No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.”

— Nhat Hanh

382. “The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.”

— Nhat Hanh

383. “It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”

— Nhat Hanh

384. “What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps.”

— Nhat Hanh

385. “Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.”

— Nhat Hanh

386. “We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds – our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.”

— Nhat Hanh

387. “In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.”

— Nhat Hanh

388. “Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.”

— Nhat Hanh

389. “When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.”

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Nhat Hanh

391. “Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.”

— Nhat Hanh

392. “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.”

— Nhat Hanh

393. “Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.”

— Nhat Hanh

394. “Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.”

— Nhat Hanh

395. “I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.”

— Nhat Hanh

396. “The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

397. “We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.”

— Nhat Hanh

398. “Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.”

— Nhat Hanh

399. “By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need – understanding and compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

400. “Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.”

— Nhat Hanh