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Quotes About Peace

I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless you in the endless future, amen.
~ Jack Kerouac
They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-Where are you going? which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, Where are you going?-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society Looking for peace.
~ Jack Kerouac
But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head
~ Jack Kerouac
By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.
~ Jack Kerouac
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.
~ Jack Kerouac
The old tree brooded over me silently, a living thing. I heard a mouse snoring in the garden weeds. The rooftops of Berkeley looked like pitiful living meat sheltering grieving phantoms from the enternality of the heavens which they feared to face. By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.
~ Jack Kerouac
We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).
~ Jack Kerouac
Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind. ? Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
~ Jack Kerouac
The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but there's a gang of fairies also there naked all standing in various bath house postures that make me hesitate to take my clothes off just on general principles. (p. 106)
~ Jack Kerouac
Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.
~ Jack Kerouac
He] seemed at home and content now they were sailing, as though leaving the port meant the cessation of all his worries, and heading out to sea a new era of peace and amenity.
~ Jack Kerouac
And at first it's so amazing to be able to enjoy dreamy afternoon meadows of heather up the other end of the canyon and just by walking less than a halfmile you can suddenly also enjoy wild gloomy sea coast, or if you're sick of either of these just sit by the creek in a gladey spot and dream over snags—So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits and say "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace" and those foggy peaks answer back mutely Yes
~ Jack Kerouac
There's nothing wrong with you Ray, your only trouble is you never learned to get out to spots like this, you've let the world drown you in its horseshit and you've been vexed... though as I say comparisons _are_ odious, but what we're saying now is true.
~ Jack Kerouac
My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
~ Jack Kerouac
the sudden vast diamond silence of the forest
~ Jack Kerouac
Buddhism wasn't responsible for the insane atrocities of human history
~ Jack Kerouac
A blessed night. I immediately fell into a blank thoughtless trance wherein it was again revealed to me "This thinking has stopped" and I sighed because I didn't have to think any more and felt my whole body sink into a blessedness surely to be believed, completely relaxed and at peace with all the ephemeral world of dream and dreamer and the dreaming itself.
~ Jack Kerouac
Joe gibilerin her ÅŸeyi berbat etmesine izin verilemezdi. Peki neydi bu her ÅŸey? Bu, bir yaÅŸam biçimiydi, denizde sürdürülen bir yaÅŸam biçimi; eÅŸitlikti, payla??md?, birliktelikti, ortak huzurdu... Kötülük edenin icab?na hemen bak?ld???, adil insanlar?n duracaklar? yeri bildikleri, kaya gibi saÄŸlam bir kardeÅŸlikti muhakkak.
~ Jack Kerouac
By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.
~ Jack Kerouac
nothing could disturb this wise calm, this sanity of soul
~ Jack Kerouac
The vast diamond silence of the forest
~ Jack Kerouac
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
~ Jack Kornfield
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
~ Jack Kornfield
You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.
~ Jack Kornfield