Nhat Hanh Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

• Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Dwelling, Breathing

• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anchors, Walking Meditation, Sky

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

• If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

• 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

  Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

  Nhat Hanh

  Family, Peace, War

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.10, Penguin

• Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

• 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

  Running, Regret, Anger

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.9, Sounds True

• Smile, breathe and go slowly.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

• 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

  Buddhist, Practice, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way”, p.8, Parallax Press

• The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Peace, Flower

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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

  Practice, Meditation, Listening

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2006). “True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

• Life is available only in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhist, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other”, p.23, Parallax Press

• Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.

  Nhat Hanh

  Yoga, Walking Meditation, World

• 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

  Happiness, Letting Go, Walking Meditation

• 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

  Dream, Cells, Practice

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

• Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each day...children die of hunger.... Yet the sunrise is beautiful, and the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Morning

• Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Jesus, Buddhist

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.61, Beacon Press

• The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Buddhist, Meditation

• Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspiration, Offering, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives”, p.14, Harper Collins

• To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem.
  To meditate means to observe.
  Your smile proves it.
  It proves that you are being gentle with yourself,
  that the sun of awareness is shining in you,
  that you have control of your situation.
  You are yourself,
  and you have acquired some peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2006). “The Sun My Heart”, p.13, Parallax Press

• To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Breathing, Meditation

• In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Meditation, Encounters

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

• 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

  Meditation, Relaxation, Secret

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

• Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Meditation, Understanding

  "Burma's Monks: Already a Success". content.time.com. October 12, 2007.

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