Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.
Nhat HanhIn modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.
Nhat HanhEnlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
Nhat Hanh