Quotes About Peace

When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free.

Our body teaches us that health lies in balance and harmony, rather than in conflict and fighting.

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

No matter where in the world I'm coming back from, in Sedona I always feel a sense of safety and peace, as if I've returned to the home of my soul, into the arms of Mother Earth the red land that always welcomes me with open arms.

A peaceful life doesn't mean one that has no conflict or struggle . . . a life that avoids conflict never changes. We must live making sounds like the stream of water . . . we can produce beautiful sounds in our lives by colliding with obstacles.

Love and peace are transmitted not through words but the soft light of the eyes and the curved lips of a gentle smile.

For most people, meditation is associated with relaxation and peace of mind, and these are the practical reasons many people seek out, learn, and practice meditation. However, relaxation and peace of mind are only half of the uses of meditation. The other, probably more important aspect, is for creation.

getting back into the rhythmn of a happy, healthy life

Knowing himself to be a backslider, and knowing that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting in so many ways, he seemed to find rare peace in the hymns of his childhood.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

His eyes widened. "You mean the symbol we use for peace began as a hate symbol against Christianity?" She nodded. "It was a visual representation of the way Nero crucified Christians upside down.

be able to go into his arms at the close of the day.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

May the world know that Colombia is peace, sports and love.

it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Complete happiness is not present in the nature of humans.