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Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now. -- Nhat Hanh
Many of us worry about the situation of the world ... We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help. -- Nhat Hanh
We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return. -- Nhat Hanh
Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice. -- Nhat Hanh
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping. -- Nhat Hanh
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need. -- Nhat Hanh
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself. -- Nhat Hanh
When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize. -- Nhat Hanh
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. -- Nhat Hanh
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
The practice is always to go back to oneself. -- Nhat Hanh
You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful. -- Nhat Hanh
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. -- Nhat Hanh
If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die. -- Nhat Hanh
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness. -- Nhat Hanh
We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others. -- Nhat Hanh
The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process. -- Nhat Hanh
Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else. -- Nhat Hanh
If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it? -- Nhat Hanh
Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life. -- Nhat Hanh
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness. -- Nhat Hanh
When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away. -- Nhat Hanh
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
The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile ... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts. -- Nhat Hanh
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity. -- Nhat Hanh
Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life. -- Nhat Hanh
Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life. It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step. -- Nhat Hanh
Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy. -- Nhat Hanh
If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? -- Nhat Hanh
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves. -- Nhat Hanh
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible. -- Nhat Hanh
I would not be happy if I had not become a monk. -- Nhat Hanh
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later. -- Nhat Hanh
If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both. -- Nhat Hanh
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice. -- Nhat Hanh
The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love. -- Nhat Hanh
You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time. -- Nhat Hanh
Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing. -- Nhat Hanh
There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities. -- Nhat Hanh
Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love. -- Nhat Hanh
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future. -- Nhat Hanh
The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration. -- Nhat Hanh
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
When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation. -- Nhat Hanh
Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market? -- Nhat Hanh
Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life. -- Nhat Hanh
You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer. -- Nhat Hanh
Be peace, don't just talk about it. -- Nhat Hanh
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow. -- Nhat Hanh
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins. -- Nhat Hanh
It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth. -- Nhat Hanh
Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window. -- Nhat Hanh
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer. -- Nhat Hanh
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. -- Nhat Hanh
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness. -- Nhat Hanh
If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you. -- Nhat Hanh
An emotion is only an emotion. It's just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you're aware of that, you won't be afraid of your emotions. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop - to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future. -- Nhat Hanh
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable. -- Nhat Hanh
As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world. -- Nhat Hanh
If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering -- Nhat Hanh
Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick. -- Nhat Hanh
I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger. -- Nhat Hanh
Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!" -- Nhat Hanh
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper? ?To be? is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is. -- Nhat Hanh
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act. -- Nhat Hanh
If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world. -- Nhat Hanh
The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding. -- Nhat Hanh
By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable ... Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong. -- Nhat Hanh
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. -- Nhat Hanh
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence. -- Nhat Hanh
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
In order to rally people, governments need enemies ... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other. -- Nhat Hanh
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot. -- Nhat Hanh
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person. -- Nhat Hanh
Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness. -- Nhat Hanh
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world. -- Nhat Hanh
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
A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this. -- Nhat Hanh
Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful. -- Nhat Hanh
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking. -- Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family ... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening. -- Nhat Hanh
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. -- Nhat Hanh
Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others. -- Nhat Hanh
The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person. -- Nhat Hanh
If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible. -- Nhat Hanh
When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower. -- Nhat Hanh
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body. -- Nhat Hanh
Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. -- Nhat Hanh
Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy? -- Nhat Hanh
Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful. -- Nhat Hanh
But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living. -- Nhat Hanh
The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive. -- Nhat Hanh
When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world. -- Nhat Hanh
I am you and you are me; it is obvious we inter-are. -- Nhat Hanh
Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love. -- Nhat Hanh
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech. -- Nhat Hanh
The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home. -- Nhat Hanh
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others. -- Nhat Hanh
In each of us is a seed of understanding. The seed is God. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed. -- Nhat Hanh
Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest. -- Nhat Hanh
Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable. -- Nhat Hanh
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth. -- Nhat Hanh
I vow to live fully in each moment. -- Nhat Hanh
In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time. -- Nhat Hanh
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open. -- Nhat Hanh
We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy. -- Nhat Hanh
The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. -- Nhat Hanh
Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware. -- Nhat Hanh
I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food. -- Nhat Hanh
Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society. -- Nhat Hanh
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others. -- Nhat Hanh
Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance. -- Nhat Hanh
To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes. -- Nhat Hanh
Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers. -- Nhat Hanh
We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world. -- Nhat Hanh
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. -- Nhat Hanh
Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. -- Nhat Hanh
When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes. -- Nhat Hanh
If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful. -- Nhat Hanh
You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person. -- Nhat Hanh
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less. -- Nhat Hanh
Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations. -- Nhat Hanh
The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world. -- Nhat Hanh
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. -- Nhat Hanh
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. -- Nhat Hanh
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception. -- Nhat Hanh
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. -- Nhat Hanh
Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out.
Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment.
Breathing out, I smile.
Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day.
Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day. -- Nhat Hanh
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation. -- Nhat Hanh
It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda. -- Nhat Hanh
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence -- Nhat Hanh
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. -- Nhat Hanh
'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible. -- Nhat Hanh
They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism. -- Nhat Hanh
I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile. -- Nhat Hanh
In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word "interbeing." We interare. -- Nhat Hanh
Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together. -- Nhat Hanh
May we awaken from the dream that we are different. -- Nhat Hanh
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
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible ... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest. -- Nhat Hanh
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive. -- Nhat Hanh
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas. -- Nhat Hanh
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. -- Nhat Hanh
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness. -- Nhat Hanh
The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now. -- Nhat Hanh
Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment. -- Nhat Hanh
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. -- Nhat Hanh
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life ... , our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. -- Nhat Hanh
Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions. -- Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit. -- Nhat Hanh
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself -- Nhat Hanh
To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world. -- Nhat Hanh
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life. -- Nhat Hanh
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching. -- Nhat Hanh
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you. -- Nhat Hanh
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love. -- Nhat Hanh
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. -- Nhat Hanh
Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love. -- Nhat Hanh
When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness. -- Nhat Hanh
With understanding, those we love will certainly flower. -- Nhat Hanh
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. -- Nhat Hanh
Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth. -- Nhat Hanh
There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves. -- Nhat Hanh
Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made. -- Nhat Hanh
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
If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. -- Nhat Hanh
A smile can change the situation of the world. -- Nhat Hanh
To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us. -- Nhat Hanh
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions. -- Nhat Hanh
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. -- Nhat Hanh
Each second of life is a miracle -- Nhat Hanh
I will practice coming back to the present moment ... not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out ... -- Nhat Hanh
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron. -- Nhat Hanh
Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings. -- Nhat Hanh
We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth. -- Nhat Hanh
Go slowly, breathe and smile. -- Nhat Hanh
At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath -- Nhat Hanh
The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life. -- Nhat Hanh
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby. To suffer is not enough. We must also be in touch with the wonders of life. They are within us and all around us, everywhere, any time. -- Nhat Hanh
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. -- Nhat Hanh
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation. -- Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. -- Nhat Hanh
Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future. -- Nhat Hanh
Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral. -- Nhat Hanh
The miracle is to walk on the earth. -- Nhat Hanh
When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country. -- Nhat Hanh
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things. -- Nhat Hanh
It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice -- Nhat Hanh
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower. -- Nhat Hanh
You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle. -- Nhat Hanh
In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming. -- Nhat Hanh
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you. -- Nhat Hanh
Freedom is the real foundation of happiness. -- Nhat Hanh
When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not an escape from life ... but preparation for really being in life. -- Nhat Hanh
While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes. -- Nhat Hanh
At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos. -- Nhat Hanh
There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also. -- Nhat Hanh
Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature. -- Nhat Hanh
Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now. -- Nhat Hanh
We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing. -- Nhat Hanh
I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step. -- Nhat Hanh
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it. -- Nhat Hanh
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet. -- Nhat Hanh
When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself. -- Nhat Hanh
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope. -- Nhat Hanh
To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people. -- Nhat Hanh
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. -- Nhat Hanh
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love. -- Nhat Hanh
Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance. -- Nhat Hanh
In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day. -- Nhat Hanh
May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home. -- Nhat Hanh
To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure. -- Nhat Hanh
What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying. -- Nhat Hanh
Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment -- Nhat Hanh
Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts. That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home. -- Nhat Hanh
There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future. -- Nhat Hanh
Happiness is the cessation of suffering. -- Nhat Hanh
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born. -- Nhat Hanh
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive. -- Nhat Hanh
Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves. -- Nhat Hanh
If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid. -- Nhat Hanh
The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left. -- Nhat Hanh
It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help. -- Nhat Hanh
The greatest of all miracles is to be alive. -- Nhat Hanh
There are two ways to wash the dishes. One way is to wash them to get them clean. The other way is to wash them in order to wash the dishes. -- Nhat Hanh
If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile. -- Nhat Hanh
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization. -- Nhat Hanh
Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence. -- Nhat Hanh
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof. -- Nhat Hanh
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching. -- Nhat Hanh
When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere. -- Nhat Hanh
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. -- Nhat Hanh
When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others. -- Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears. -- Nhat Hanh
If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered. -- Nhat Hanh
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready. -- Nhat Hanh
When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. -- Nhat Hanh
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow. -- Nhat Hanh
When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us. -- Nhat Hanh
As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment. -- Nhat Hanh
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
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember. -- Nhat Hanh
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Your presence is a miracle. -- Nhat Hanh
I think, therefore I am ... not here. -- Nhat Hanh
When we are present, life is also present. -- Nhat Hanh
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality. -- Nhat Hanh
Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help. -- Nhat Hanh
Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace. -- Nhat Hanh
There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is. -- Nhat Hanh
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. -- Nhat Hanh
In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears. -- Nhat Hanh
The war is in our souls. -- Nhat Hanh
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. -- Nhat Hanh
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger. -- Nhat Hanh
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace. -- Nhat Hanh
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
We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle -- Nhat Hanh
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. -- Nhat Hanh
Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence. -- Nhat Hanh
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice -- Nhat Hanh
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
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement. -- Nhat Hanh
Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other. -- Nhat Hanh
One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing. -- Nhat Hanh
Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path. -- Nhat Hanh
We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive. -- Nhat Hanh
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace ... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world. -- Nhat Hanh
To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God. -- Nhat Hanh
To take care of the environment, we must first take care of the environmentalist. -- Nhat Hanh
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
The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature. -- Nhat Hanh
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are. -- Nhat Hanh
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
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment. -- Nhat Hanh
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. -- Nhat Hanh
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent. -- Nhat Hanh
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!" -- 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. -- Nhat Hanh
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? -- Nhat Hanh
Peace in ourselves, peace in the world. -- Nhat Hanh
When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less. -- Nhat Hanh
We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others. -- Nhat Hanh
Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit. -- Nhat Hanh
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply. -- Nhat Hanh
To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives. -- Nhat Hanh
You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone. -- Nhat Hanh
Smile, breathe, go slowly. -- Nhat Hanh
Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life. -- Nhat Hanh
That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people. -- Nhat Hanh
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation -- Nhat Hanh
As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing. -- Nhat Hanh
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person. -- Nhat Hanh
To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy. -- Nhat Hanh
Today is the most important day of our lives. -- Nhat Hanh
The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation. -- Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. -- Nhat Hanh
Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts. -- Nhat Hanh
Life is only available in the present moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being. -- Nhat Hanh
Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace. -- Nhat Hanh
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. -- Nhat Hanh
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering. -- Nhat Hanh
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change. -- Nhat Hanh
Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing. -- Nhat Hanh
In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand. -- Nhat Hanh
Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. -- Nhat Hanh
Be part of the miraculous moment. -- Nhat Hanh
One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas. -- Nhat Hanh
Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step. -- Nhat Hanh
Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment. -- Nhat Hanh
"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this. -- Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves. -- Nhat Hanh
Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. -- Nhat Hanh
The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet - to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind - with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home. -- Nhat Hanh
When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get. -- Nhat Hanh
Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking. -- Nhat Hanh
Mother Earth is very talented. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live. -- Nhat Hanh
May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day. -- Nhat Hanh
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world. -- Nhat Hanh
Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart. -- Nhat Hanh
How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves? -- Nhat Hanh
If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either. -- Nhat Hanh
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. -- Nhat Hanh
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness -- Nhat Hanh
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go. -- Nhat Hanh
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders. -- Nhat Hanh
In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain. -- Nhat Hanh
The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available. -- Nhat Hanh
Just listen Be peace. -- Nhat Hanh
Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart. -- Nhat Hanh
Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves. -- Nhat Hanh
With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this. -- Nhat Hanh
