“Walking on the Earth” — Thich Nhat Hanh Quote

“Walking on the Earth”

“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”

“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”

“this planet belongs to our children. we have borowed this planet from our children. we have caused a lot of damage to the planet.. but who are our children? they are our continuation, they are us. it means we have borrowed from ourselves... not much is left of ourselves... but with the practice we can do otherwise.”

“It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.”

“We are aware that blaming and arguing can never help us and only create a wider gap between us; that only understanding, trust, and love can help us change and grow”

“If humanity is the central fact of the universe, if our species is the omphalos, then a close examination of the celestial sphere should confirm that privileged status. Our solar system should be the fixed point against which all else is moving; our Sun should be at absolute rest. If the evidence doesn’t support that premise, then we must ask where our commitment truly lies.”

“Gratitude is the language of those who trust. Of those who know God doesn’t make mistakes.”

“Both imaginative Myth, when developed into a system, and intellectualist Scholasticism, when worked out to its completion, are methods by which the fundamental fact of religious experience is, as it were, simply rolled out so thin and flat as to be finally eliminated altogether.”

“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.”

“Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.”