Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process; he is not merely an extant life, but is, within that life, endowed with possibilities through the freedom he possesses to make of himself what he will by the activities on which he decides.

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different.

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out