Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

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

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

Peace begins When expectation ends.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.