Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.