Quotes from Hanh Nhat Thich

If you take a handful of salt and pour it into a small bowl of water, the water in the bowl will be too salty to drink. But if you pour the same amount of salt into a large river, people will still be able to drink the river's water. If your heart is small, one unjust word or act will make you suffer. But if your heart is large, if you have understanding and compassion, that word or deed will not have the power to make you suffer.

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.

What is love? Love is treating your heart with a great deal of tenderness, with understanding, love, and compassion. If you cannot treat your own heart this way, how can you treat your partner with understanding and love?

Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy.

Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.

If we can relax when our strong emotions come, then we don't pass fear on to our children and to future generations.

Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have?

According to the Buddha's teachings, the most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy, and delusion. These mental formations are described by the Buddha as poisons. As long as these poisons are still in our heart, happiness cannot be possible.

The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet." The only moment in which you can be truly alive is the present moment. The present moment is the destination, the point to arrive at. Every time you breathe in and take a step, you arrive: "Breathing in, I arrive. Breathing out, I arrive." The

My dear friends, my dear disciples, don't take refuge in anything outside of you.

When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind.

be there is the first step, and recognizing the presence of the other is the second step. To love is to recognize; to be loved is to be recognized by the other.

Suffering is not objective. It depends largely on the way you perceive. There are things that cause you to suffer but do not cause others to suffer. There are things that bring you joy but do not bring others joy.

Right View cannot be described. We can only point in the correct direction. Right View cannot even be transmitted by a teacher. A teacher can help us identify the seed of Right View that is already in our garden, and help us have the confidence to practice, to entrust that seed to the soil of our daily life.

The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.

I inherit the results of my acts of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a world that honors the servant, but has forgotten the gift. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This is like this, because that is like that." This is the Buddhist teaching of Genesis.

Liberation is the ability to go from the world of signs to the world of true nature.

Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept.

To write a book, we must write with our whole life, not just during the moments we are sitting at our desk. When writing a book or an article, we know that our words will affect many other people. We do not have the right just to express our own suffering if it brings suffering to others.

The verb "to be" here means to generate your own presence, your real presence.

Hell is a matter of everyday life, like the Kingdom of God. The choice is yours.