Quotes About Peace

being alone is better

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968)

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

It seemed to me, in the gloom, that the flowers had moved closer to her, had crowded eagerly about her bed, as though waiting for her to tell them something. A ravaged old queen, lying in state, surrounded by her whispering court of flowers.

escaped to the veranda, where he stood in the moonlight taking deep breaths.

Our egos motivate us to believe that we will feel more peaceful and happy if we find someone to blame and direct our anger at that person.

Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.

Love, then, is letting go of fear.

it will be helpful to keep the following underlying themes in mind: Peace of mind is our single goal. Forgiveness is our single function and the way to achieve our goal of peace of mind. Through forgiveness, we can learn not to judge others and to see everyone, including ourselves, as guiltless.

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn't work!

When we are centered on giving, we also receive, because our personal anxieties begin to dissipate from our thoughts. When we recognize that what is in the best interests of another is also of complete benefit to us, we gain inner tranquillity, if only briefly, because for that moment we have left our personal hell behind. The

As each of us moves toward the single goal of achieving peace of mind for ourselves, we can also experience the joining of our minds that follows the removal of the blocks to our awareness of Love's presence.

My outer success did not change the inner state of my mind and heart. Part of me kept insisting there had to be more to life than this. I do not remember consciously thinking that I was a seeker or that I was looking for my home for peace of mind. But I do remember well that chronic state of emptiness and sadness, superimposed on giant pools of damned-up inside tears. In nearly every area of my life, I felt no one really understood me and I understood nothing at all.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

I believe that the purpose of God's guidance is to show us how to release our minds from fear so we may know peace and be truly kind and sensitive to others, which we cannot do when we are fear-dominated. Both

God alone is sufficient.8

That Jews and Christians, together with Muslims, can live in amity, respecting differences while honoring commonalities—that this is no pipe dream—is proven by the fact that, for centuries, they did just that. —James Carroll1

Heaven is to be in God at last made free. —Evelyn Underhill1

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Love is letting go of fear.