Quotes About Peace

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

I believe that if you truly understand the importance of relaxation, you will make time for it in your schedule.

Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.

Instead of railing against hate, we focus on love; instead of judging the angry, we offer them our peaceful presence; instead of warning against a dystopian future, we provide a hopeful vision.

The building blocks of meditation are relaxation and concentration. If you cannot relax, you cannot meditate. If you cannot concentrate, you cannot meditate. No exceptions.

You see, meditation is not a fabricated state. It is natural. It is accessible to all. And in the same way that a person who learns how to run, can run any time they want to, or, a person who knows how to play an instrument can play music at will, once you learn how to meditate, you can create your moments of peace at will.

The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation.

You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here—us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows—this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will.

Only direct experience of the peaceful internal state will remove doubt and provide enlightenment—not in a spooky, out-of-this-world kind of way, but in a rational, let's-turn-on-the-lights sort of way.

When a person has developed an ongoing relationship with the peaceful internal state, then he or she will likely begin to display certain characteristics such as empathy, forgiveness, magnanimity, altruism, compassion, and benevolence. And when someone displays any of the above, we generally start speaking about that person as spiritual, even though he or she may not represent a religion of any kind.

When life vibrates at a harmonious frequency there is no need to seek something better. It's only when the rhythm of life is disrupted that people pay attention.

A trans-rational definition of spirituality therefore encompasses these two elements. First, uncovering our peaceful internal center, and then, allowing that peace to guide our actions in the world.

Even if we did not create the acrimony, even if we weren't the ones who created the divide, we can be bridge-builders, healers, harmonizers, and a vital part of the solution.

The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior.

La cultura ayuda a un pueblo a luchar con las palabras antes que con las armas

De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et d'être simplement heureux.

si vis pacem, para bellum. ??? ???? ?????? ?????? ?????. - ?????

Ng??i ta ch? t? do khi ? m?t mình-Authur SCHOPENHAUER

Ignoro de dónde salió el manido «descanse en paz». Dudo que tú reposes en tu tumba, porque a veces te escucho moverte, como que no terminas de hallarte en tu sepulcro. Yo tampoco. En los muertos nos queda aún una efervescencia, un burbujeo que puede confundirse con los gases que expelemos. No, son riadas de vida que todavía corren por nuestras arterias. Tardan en secarse. Se lleva una eternidad dejar la vida atrás.

I don't think there is life beyond death, I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. And that moment of clarity gives you either peace or the most tremendous fear, because you finally have no cover, and you finally realize exactly who you are.

The forest offered so much to those who honored it.

Within each of us there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

ahimsa paramo dharma', 'non-violence is the highest dharma'.59

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61