
Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day

Feeling grateful for what we already have, being aware that we have more than enough conditions for happiness in the present moment is very important. It is good to start the day with this sort of awareness.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
Don’t try to find solutions with your thinking mind. You just plant a seed and let it grow underground.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
Any job can be enjoyable if we do it in the right spirit, with mindfulness, with awareness, and with the aim of helping living beings.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
What is there is the awareness of you yourself, and the fact that you are still alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
Waking up, I see the blue sky. I join my palms in gratitude.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
But we learn how to work so that we don’t become victims of pressure or stress.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
Until we stop and notice what is happening in the present moment, we cannot generate joy, awareness, or compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
acknowledging the emotion and not suppressing it or acting on it, then transformation occurs and we are able to find more joy, peace, and awareness.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
We complain that we don’t have the time to rest, to enjoy just being, but this is because we are used to always doing something. We