Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Experience is stronger than belief. Once we have experiences our mind begins to open. This works better than me forcing my own experience or knowledge onto anyone. Show them how to have their own experiences.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.