Quotes About Peace

We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.

If you expect your life to be up and down, your mind will be much more peaceful.

the midst of these forces with his heart open and his mind clear until he could see to the depths of human consciousness, until he discovered a place of peace at the center of them all. This was his enlightenment, the discovery of nirvana, the freeing of his heart from entanglement in all the conditions of the world.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. William Butler Yeats

Forgiveness is a vow not to carry bitterness into the future...to decide to give up hope for a better past.

Anger, blame, conflict, and resentment arise from our fear. When we are afraid, our body tightens, our heart is constricted, our mind is possessed. We cannot live wisely.

Genuine spiritual practice requires us to learn how to stop the war. This is a first step, but actually it must be practiced over and over until it becomes our way of being. The inner stillness of a person who truly "is peace" brings peace to the whole interconnected web of life, both inner and outer. To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves.

The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi understood this when he said: I have only three enemies. My favorite enemy, the one most easily influenced for the better, is the British Empire. My second enemy the Indian people, is far more difficult. But my most formidable opponent is a man named Mohandas K. Gandhi. With him I seem to have very little influence.

Just something else to let go of.