Quotes About Peace

So you just like the country." "I do, yeah. The city wouldn't suit me. Hearing other people's noise all day and all night.

He feels no urge to understand the stars better; he's contented with them as they are.

I am a poor wayfaring stranger Traveling through this world alone But there's no sickness, toil or danger In that bright world to which I go. I'm going there to see my loved ones I'm going there, no more to roam I'm only going over Jordan I'm only going over home.

He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

It wasn't good for the soul, she reminded herself, to dwell in anger. Too oft it only hurt the bearer, because the receiver was scarce aware, or didn't care anyway.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

EVERYONE HAS A HOLY PLACE, A REFUGE, WHERE THEIR HEARTS ARE PURER, THEIR MINDS CLEARER WHERE THEY FEEL CLOSE TO GOD, OR LOVE, OR TRUTH OR WHEREVER IT IS THEY HAPPEN TO WORSHIP.

Equanimity is a profound quality of mindfulness that cultivates the ability to let go. With equanimity, we can acknowledge that things are as they are, even though we may wish otherwise.

compassion is a great tranquilizer.

Inner peace is the key: if we have inner peace we will be able to deal with situations with calmness and reason.

A brief act of noticing the disturbing thoughts and feelings, just an acknowledgment, like an inner nod—rather than a mental conversation with them—can sometimes suffice.

Understanding, too, can be a form of forgiveness.

In Buddhist psychology, compassion is seen as a direct antidote to aggression.

Feelings are held, but not held on to.

mindfulness creates a "wise" attention, a space of clarity that emerges when we quiet the mind. It makes us more receptive to the whispers of our innate intuitive wisdom.

There are several forms of the loving-kindness meditation. Here's one. Just as I want to be free from suffering, may all beings be free from suffering.

The Dalai Lama advises practicing equanimity before loving-kindness as a way to take the sting out of attachment to wanting things to be a certain way.

By becoming mindful we can drop the compulsion to try to make disturbing thoughts go away, to agitate ourselves by worrying, or to try to make things better or in any way different. We can be with life just as it is, observing completely what happens, without immediately trying to change it.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just "real life.

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.