Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the most perfect world, this moment lacks nothing - the experience of this is what enlightenment is.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Be still and turn within to the great source.

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life