Quotes About Peace

Jon Kabat-Zinn

A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.

we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you already are.

When asked about his apparent lack of anger toward the Chinese by an incredulous reporter at the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama replied something to the effect that: "They have taken everything from us; should I let them take my mind as well?

When we can be centered in ourselves, even for brief periods of time in the face of the pull of the outer world, not having to look elsewhere for something to fill us up or make us happy, we can be at home wherever we find ourselves, at peace with things as they are, moment by moment.

Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.

in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

no place to go, nothing to do, nothing to attain.

Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable and highly respected Vietnamese meditation teacher, poet, and peace activist, uses the image of cloudy apple juice settling in a glass to describe meditation. You just sit with whatever is present, even discomfort, anxiety, or confusion, with whatever is present, and the mind settles all by itself.

It's not a matter of letting go—you would if you could. Instead of Let it go, we should probably say Let it be.

Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.

Meditace je opravdu jediná lidská ?innost, ve které se nesnažíte dostat nÄ›kam jinam, ale prostÄ› si dovolíte z?stat tam, kde jste, a takoví, jací jste. Je to hoÃ…â"¢ká medicína, která se Å¡patnÄ› polyká, když se vám nelíbí, kde jste a co se kolem vás dÄ›je, ale v takových pÃ…â"¢ípadech je její užívání obzvláÅ¡Å¥ užite?né.

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

The mountain is always grounded, rooted in the earth, always still, always beautiful. It is beautiful just being what it is, seen or unseen, snow-covered or green, rained on or wrapped in clouds.

However, perhaps there is a different possibility. It could be that evolution has endowed the brain with self-stabilizing mechanisms so that it always safely enters a good state if we leave it in its default mode—if we just decouple it from the disturbing outer world and let it run by itself. Maybe it's done that way. That would be even better.

La méditation consiste à s'éveiller de cet état de rêve.

nous sommes invités, par le moment présent, à nous connecter avec l'intention d'incarner de notre mieux le calme, la pleine conscience et la sérénité ici et maintenant.

Can we trust that things unfold in their own time and that we do not have to fix everything or even anything?

How will that eventually be a contribution to humanity? That is truly our common goal. Can we contribute something to education through cultivating emotional balance? As His Holiness often says, we cannot have outer peace without inner peace. We cannot have an outer disarmament without inner disarmament. If we want to have a harmonious society, it has to begin with and within each of us.

to stop trying so hard to be "somebody" and instead just experience being, perhaps we would be a lot happier and more relaxed.

The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and to let go of caring whether it will be of use or not.

Prayer is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to release every pain

When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!