How to Dream
How to Dream by Thich Nhat Hanh, published by Parallax Press on August 26, 2025, is a 128-page exploration of how to realize our dreams in the present moment. In this final installment of the Mindfulness Essentials series, the Zen Master emphasizes the importance of transforming suffering into meaningful action, encouraging readers to harness their deep desires to foster a wholesome path in life.
This book presents practical guidance on connecting with our deepest aspirations and living them out in daily life. Thich Nhat Hanh discusses the significance of community support in maintaining our dreams and offers strategies to protect these aspirations from the distractions of modern life. The text also highlights the potential for personal, social, and political change when individuals collectively nurture their dreams. With inspiring illustrations throughout, How to Dream serves as a resource for anyone seeking to rekindle their aspirations and contribute positively to society.
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In the final book of the best-selling Mindfulness Essentials series, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to realize our dreams in this very moment.
We all want our lives to be useful and meaningful. The aspiration to transform suffering—our own, each other’s, and the Earth’s—can give us the energy we need to continue on a wholesome path. In How to Dream, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to let our deep desire nourish us and, in turn, how to keep that desire alive.
With inspiring illustrations throughout, this pocket-sized book explains how to:
• Get in touch with our deepest dream
• Live our dream in every moment of daily life
• Keep our dream alive with the help of a community
• Protect our dream from the dampening effects of our fast-paced modern life
• Direct energy towards lasting personal, social, and political change
If our aspiration is lost, depleted, or if we’ve slowly let it go, we must rekindle it. Whatever our role in society—activist, businessperson, teacher, parent, or politician—we can live into our deep aspiration and change the direction of civilization. And together, as a community with a collective aspiration, we have the energy to realize our dream.
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