Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

Awareness is always the first step.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.