Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

 “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

 “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hang, Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.     

― Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are ok. Right now, today, we are still alive. Our bodies are working marvelously; our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Thich Nhat Hanh

...in the social action, don’t do anything that you do with negativity, frustration, or anger. Because that will rile the opposition. Do your social action with love.

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 A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

 ― Ram Dass

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

― Ram Dass

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

― Ram Dass

When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
―   Ram Dass 

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
― Ram Dass

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
―  Ram Dass

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

―  Ram Dass

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

― Ram Dass

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
― Ram Dass

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

― Ram Dass

We're all just walking each other home.

― Ram Dass