
Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions

Your sorrow and anger will give you a lot of wisdom. Have the courage to look deeply, to accept these feelings and say, “Hello my pain, my sadness, I know you are there, I want to take care of you, I want to understand you, and I want to learn together with you.”
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
Hungry ghosts are hungry for love and understanding, but their capacity to receive it is very small.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
Non-fear, the insight that there’s no birth and no death, is the greatest gift given to us by the practice of looking deeply.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
The time when we are sad is a good time to cultivate the quality of stillness and peace in
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
While you’re alive, enjoy every moment and look deeply to touch your true nature of no birth and no death.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
Awakening means to see that truth—that you want to know how to enjoy, how to live deeply, in a very simple way. You don’t want to waste your time anymore. Cherish the time that you are given.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
As your understanding grows, your compassion and loving kindness will grow, and your heart will grow larger. When our hearts are larger, we have a better capacity to receive and embrace the negative feelings we have in order to transform them.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
The mind should be always with the body. That’s why mindful walking is a practice that can be considered to be a prayer.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
When you are truly present, you are more in control of situations, you have more love, patience, understanding, and compassion.