And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.
Live fully each day to the full. . .
The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.
The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life. . . have been my mother - for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
It is the experience of love that enables us to change.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.