Thich Nhat Hanh

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

If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

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.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

But the mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

This body of mine is my teacher. This heart of mine, my guide. My dear head struggles to make sense of it all whilst my hands gently remind me to trust and let go.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.