You Are Now | Thich Nhat Hanh's Calligraphy
As another Zen teaching says, “The path is right beneath your feet.”
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
one. If you are not living in peace at this moment, you will never be able to. If you truly want to be at peace, you must be at peace right now. Otherwise, there is only “the hope of peace some day.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, The Sun My Heart
Mark Williams • The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
It is possible to learn to sit in peace, breathe in peace, and walk in peace. To be at peace is an art we cultivate with our daily mindfulness practice.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
Good in the Middle is the frame of mind with which we enter into the heart of the practice, one inspired by the realization of the nature of mind, from which arises an attitude of nongrasping, free of any conceptual reference whatsoever, and an awareness that all things are inherently “empty,” illusory, and dreamlike.