Quotes About Peace

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are.

They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles

The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?

Ne tražite sre?u. Ako je tražite, ne?ete je na?i, jer je traženje suprotnost sre?i. Sre?a uvijek vješto izmi?e, ali slobodu od nesre?e možete posti?i ovoga trenutka suo?avaju?i se sa stvarnoš?u, umjesto da o njoj izmišljate pri?e.

This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

nothing real can be threatened.

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness — without doing anything — simply by being and holding that frequency of intense presence.

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.' Is it possible to let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are?

DON'T LOOK FOR PEACE. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender. When you accept what is, every moment is the best moment. That is enlightenment.

Through surrender, spiritual energy comes into the world.

Leave Life alone. Let it be.

is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it

Ask yourself what "problem" you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" and therefore at peace.

No relationship can thrive without the sense of spaciousness that comes with stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering, no negativity, can survive.

The ego's needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want. Once you know how the basic dysfunction operates, there is no need to explore all its countless manifestations, no need to make it into a complex personal problem.

Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering.