Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

All that I seek is already within me.

The Secret is within you.

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.

To really involve yourself in transforming yourself. That's the work that I'm really focused on through my company, Higher Ground Productions, is really helping people to really find a place of personal empowerment as well as inner peace.

What you are looking for is within you

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.

What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.