I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

-Thich Nhat Hanh, "Miracle of Mindfulness"

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers
deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He
does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Buddhist Monk


AHHH, IF ONLY WE ALL COULD KNOW THIS AND ACT ACCORDINGLY. SO MUCH PEACE AND
LIGHT WOULD BE HAD. NAMASTE, SANDY