Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I aspire only to silence.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.