Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

May my silences become more accurate.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

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

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

I'm down for indefinitely chilling as long as I'm not self-aware during it. That seems like it could be torture on some level but a lot of people pray for that so who knows.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.