Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Nhat HanhGuarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.
Nhat HanhI think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Nhat Hanh