Call Me by My True Names Quotes

“Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“For Warmth

I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm –
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“Certain wondrous phenomena respond to the human need to know the infinite, truth, beauty, goodness. Others, deliberately enigmatic, remain inaccessible to our brains and hearts. Humans are much too accustomed to penetrating the universe with a narrow and limited mind, ignoring the eighty-thousand doors that are always open, at our disposal.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“Be the monarch of your life
and sign the decree
to exile suffering
and call back from all points of the universe
the power of birds and flowers,
the vitality of youth.
The whole universe will smile
when your eyes smile.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“If we stop being joyful and stop singing, we are caught in a kind of prison. The stars in the sky never build prisons.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“Tell me, did I stop here once during a previous existence? I find myself looking for my footprints left during one cycle of birth and death.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“Poetry looks with a child's eyes.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems