Thich Nhat Hanh · 143 pages
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“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“In daily life, you are in the habit of running because you think happiness is impossible in the present. This is a habit that was handed down to you by your ancestors, by your parents. Happiness does not seem possible to you in the here and now, so you look for it in the distant future. The practice consists of stopping that habit of running.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Don’t wait to start living. Live now! Your life should be real in this very moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“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?”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“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”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“You already are everything you are seeking. Do not try to become something else.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Maybe we too are living like dead people. We move about life in our own corpse because we are not touching life in depth. We live a kind of artificial life, with lots of plans, lots of worries and anger. Never are we able to establish ourselves in the here and now and live our lives deeply. We have to wake up! We have to make it possible for the moment of awareness to manifest. This is the practice that will save us—this is the revolution.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“This body is not me, I am not caught in this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I shall never die. Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations of my wondrous true mind. Since before time, I have been free. Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey. Birth and death are just a game of hide and seek. So laugh with me, hold my hand, let us say goodbye, say goodbye, to meet again soon. We meet today. We will meet again tomorrow. We will meet at the source at every moment. We meet each other in all forms of life. The”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“the more freedom you have, the more happiness you have.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“When you drink whiskey, learn to drink it with mindfulness. “Drinking whiskey, I know that it is whiskey I am drinking.” This is the approach that I would recommend. I am not telling you to absolutely stop drinking. I propose that you drink your whiskey mindfully, and I am sure that if you drink this way for a few weeks, you will stop drinking alcohol. Drinking your whiskey mindfully, you will recognize what is taking place in you—in your body, in your liver, in your relationships, in the world, and so on. When your mindfulness becomes strong, you will just stop. You”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love. So”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“The wave can live the life of a wave, but it can also do better. It can live every moment of its life deeply touching its nature of no-birth and no-death, that is, its nature as water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Cultivate solidity. You are somebody; you are something. You are a positive factor for your family, for society, for the world. You have to recover yourself, to be yourself. You have to become solid again. You can practice solidity in everyday life. Every step, every breath you take should help you become more solid. When you have solidity, freedom is there too.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“You have to realize that happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. You have to understand that it is here, now.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“We have to establish ourselves in the here and now in order to truly eat. All through the meal, we should really be here with the people at the table. As we chew our food, we should really be here with what we are eating. We can get deeply in touch with the food, which is a gift from the earth and sky.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Conflict and suffering are often caused by a person not wanting to surrender his concepts and ideas of things. In the relationship between a father and a son, for example, or between partners, this happens all the time. It is important to train yourself to let go of your ideas about things. Freedom is cultivated by this practice of letting go. If you look deeply, you may find that you are holding on to a concept that is causing you to suffer a great deal. Are you intelligent enough, are you free enough, to give up this idea?”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Debes saber cómo desembarazarte de las cosas que te hacen sufrir. Puedes alcanzar la felicidad soltando…, soltando incluso tus ideas sobre la felicidad. Quizás creas que para ser feliz debes cumplir determinados requisitos, pero, si observas profundamente, descubrirás que son precisamente esas mismas nociones las que te impiden alcanzar la felicidad y acaban haciéndote sufrir.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“The verb “to be” here means to generate your own presence, your real presence.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“The Buddha said that we should not be afraid of the past; but he did warn us not to lose ourselves in it, either. We should not feed our regret or pain over the past, and we should not get carried away by the past. We do need to study and understand the past, however, because by looking deeply into the past we learn a lot of things that can benefit the present and the future. The past is an object of our study, of our meditation, but the way to study it or meditate on it is by remaining anchored in the present moment. We”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“The future is being made out of the present, so the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. This is logical and clear. Spending a lot of time speculating and worrying about the future is totally useless. We can only take care of our future by taking care of the present moment, because the future is made out of only one substance: the present. Only if you are anchored in the present can you prepare well for the future. Although”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Hell is a matter of everyday life, like the Kingdom of God. The choice is yours.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“We can touch the Kingdom of God in everyday life.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
“Hell is in us, like a seed. We need to cultivate the positive within us so we can generate the energy of understanding and compassion and transform hell.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Born place: in Thừa Thiên Huế , Viet Nam
Born date October 11, 1926
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