Week 2 · eastern

Thich Nhat Hanh

A Vietnamese monk once walked so slowly through a war zone that soldiers on both sides stopped shooting to watch him pass. His name was Thich Nhat Hanh, and he believed that how you wash a dish or take a step matters as much as any prayer. He didn't separate the sacred from the ordinary. He thought that separation was the whole problem.

“"Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet." He wrote that while living in exile from his homeland, banned from returning to Vietnam for 39 years. The tenderness in that sentence wasn't born from comfort. It was born from loss.”