Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.

In the past, we probably did suffer from one thing or another. It may even have felt like a kind of hell. If we remember that suffering, not letting ourselves get carried away by it, we can use it to remind ourselves, How lucky I am right now. I'm not in that situation. I can be happy.

God the Father is in God the Son; and the Holy Spirit is in the Son and in the Father. That is interbeing.

We have to learn to build safety with our in-breath and our out-breath. We have to learn to build safety with our steps, with our way of acting and reacting, with our words and our efforts to build communication.

The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.

To "love our enemy" is impossible, because the moment we love him, he is no longer our enemy.

Everything is in your own heart.

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

Whatever views we hold, we should be careful not to get caught up in thinking that our view is the "best" and that only we have the truth.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it.

Compassion doesn't mean that you have to love that person who's so difficult. But if you stop and look deeper, you'll see that person's difficulties. If you can accept him, then you can love him.