"We need to practice meditation gently, but steadily, throughout daily life, not wasting a single opportunity or event to see deeply into the true nature of life, including our everyday problems.  Practicing in this way, we dwell in profound communion with life."  p. 18  PEACE IS EVERY STEP, Thich Nhat Hanh, New York:  Bantam Books, 1991. 
 
"Meditation is a point of contact.  Sometimes you do not have to go to the place of suffering.  You just sit quietly on your cushion, and you can see everything.  You can actualize everything, and you can be aware of what is going on in the world.  Out of that kind of awareness, compassion and understanding arise naturally, and you can stay right in your own country and perform social action."  p. 126  PEACE IS EVERY STEP, Thich Nhat Hanh, New York:  Bantam Books, 1991. 
 
"Meditation is to look deeply into things and to see how we can change ourselves and how we can transform our situation.  To transform our situation is also to transform our minds.  To trnsform our minds is also to transform our situation, because the situation is mind, and mind is situation.  Awakening is important.  The nature of the bombs, the nature of injustice, and the nature of our own beings are the same."  P. 112  PEACE IS EVERY STEP, Thich Nhat Hanh, New York:  Bantam Books, 1991