Quotes About Peace

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

does a world without spiritual power force us to seek distraction because underneath, we do not know the answers at all?

To discover who you really are, you must go beyond who you think you are. To find peace, you must go beyond fear. To experience unconditional love, you must go beyond conditional love, the kind that comes and goes.

Forgive because it makes you feel good.

and in that case the "primitive" belief—found throughout the ancient and pagan world—that God exists in every blade of grass, every creature, and even the earth and sky, may contain the highest truth. Arriving at that truth is the purpose of spiritual life, and each stage of God takes us on a journey whose end point is total clarity, a sense of peace that nothing can disturb.

One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

Today I shall judge nothing that occurs." Non-judgment creates silence in your mind.

Here is your safety. This is going to be your special place. When you feel confused or when someone is trying to make you what you are not, come back to this tree. Sit and close your eyes. Wait for the silence. Do nothing to make it come to you. It will come of its own accord.

Be still and know your soul. Seek it, and when you meet your soul, seize it for yourself, because it's worth far more than gold.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. —Mahatma Gandhi

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

The forces that will drive the whole world to become rich are temperate self-interest and temperate governance. As Adam Smith put it in 1755, "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated to go peacefully and enjoy the eternal nap.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Oblivion cures the old wounds.

Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

I fell asleep in the deep velvet of this wood; I dreamt divine things.

I know knives and guns are not the answer. Once we get a fight like that started, who will have the power to stop it? How many deaths will be enough?

Friends are forever ,we never have enemies forever!!

like the Irish, if we have no external enemy we fight amongst ourselves, and this has been our custom for more than a century.

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.