Thich Nhat Hanh

Our own life has to be our message.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Nothing is black or white.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Exploring the mysteries of myself and the world. Sensual, powerful, wise… on my path…

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Never do wrong when people are looking.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.