Quotes About Peace

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond...If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in 'just being'. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That which cannot be named.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe.

I don't know is not confusion. Confusion is I don't know, but I should know or I don't know, but I need to know. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self.

The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment.

Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.

In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.

Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing." This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of that state.

El amor no desea ni teme nada.