Quotes About Peace

The purpose of the practice of meditation is to experience the gaps. We do nothing, essentially, and see what that brings—either discomfort or relief, whatever the case may be. The starting point for the practice of meditation is the mindfulness discipline of developing peace. The peace we experience in meditation is simply this state of doing nothing, which is experiencing the absence of speed.

In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind, then its energy will rebound back on us. If we let the mind go completely, then it will become very wild and chaotic. So we let the mind go, but at the same time there is some discipline involved.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names

It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror.

Do you know what peace is, Charlie?... Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names.

I sat in the ground, with the warm sun shining on my back, and I realized that the earth had not rejected me and the sunlight had not snapped me in two.

If one kept the great yellow mounds of smashed brick in the corner of one's eye, then the mind understood them as the contours of nature and forgot its trick of making one unhappy.

Perhaps it was true, thought Alistair, that Septembers would come again. People would love the crisp cool of the mornings, and it would not remind them of the week war was declared....Alistair let the idea grow: that when the war's heat was spent, the last remaining pilots would ditch their last bombs into the sea and land their planes on cratered airfields that would slowly give way to brambles. That pilots would take off their jackets and ties, and pick fruit.

ZANNA IN THE GARDEN

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Her stillness defeated his storm.

In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.

Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Las peores organizaciones ofrecen un sueldo, pero espiritualmente están en bancarrota y son perfectamente incapaces de proporcionarnos la alegría, la satisfacción o la paz que encontramos, por ejemplo, en nuestras familias y tradiciones espirituales.

Sí, tenemos que tomar decisiones difíciles, hacer las cosas bien y adaptarnos a un mundo siempre cambiante, como lo hacen las mejores compañías; pero también tenemos que encontrar paz y satisfacción al darnos cuenta de la grandeza a la cual somos llamados como seres humanos.

Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.

Maybe the only two good things about getting older is the waning of want and no fear of loneliness.

Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.