Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

A quiet mind cureth all.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.