“Live the moment that life is offering you. Sit down quietly and meditate to look deeply and sweep away the wild imaginings, the prejudices, and the wrong perceptions of the past. Part the clouds and uncover the brightly shining moon in the vast sky; dissolve the mist to find the dazzling flowers and fresh new buds.”
Inside The Now – Thich Nhat Hanh
“You must pierce the veil of time and space in order to come to the here and the now.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“All we need to be responsible for is the present moment. Only the present is within our reach. To care for the present is to care for the future.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“In order to return to the present and to be face to face with what is happening, we must look deeply into the heart of what is and experience its true nature.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“If we live in mindfulness, we are no longer poor, because our practice of living in the present moment makes us rich in joy, peace, understanding, and love.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Child’s Question: How old are you?
Thay: Well, how old are you first?
Child: I am six, almost seven.
Thay: Listen, I am going to give you a good answer. I am the continuation of the Buddha, so I am 2,600 years old.
Child: Oh!
Thay: I am also the continuation of my father, so I am 110 years young. I know that you are my continuation and I feel that I am in you, so at the time I am six years old also. That is true, because I have been reborn in that child. He will carry me into the future. So I am quite young. I am six years old. If you look around, you see me a little bit everywhere. I have different ages. Okay?”
“When we are in touch with the blue sky, for example, the white clouds, the green willow or the rose, we do not communicate with them only in words. We recognise and accept these things and feel their warmth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“When a Buddha sees suffering, she gives rise to the energies of mindfulness and concentration, and allows herself to be touched by what is around her in a way that allows compassion and loving kindness to be born.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“We are not separate. We are inextricably interlinked. The rose is the garbage, the soldier is the civilian, the criminal is also the victim.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“In the present moment it continues to be the forest, the sunshine, the cloud, and the rain. It is a formation, the manifestation of many causes and conditions coming together. “
Thich Nhat Hanh
