Quotes About Peace

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself

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Gustavo Solivellas dice: Nunca hubo un niño tan encantador, pero su madre se alegró de dormirlo (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life.

Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.

Dios no verá su trabajo hecho por cobardes. Un hombre está satisfecho y contento cuando ha puesto su corazón en su trabajo y ha hecho lo mejor que puede; pero cuando no actúe o hable en coherencia con esto, no tendrá paz.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Sweet is death forevermore.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

The world is won by those who let it go.

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namasté," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where, if you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Namasté

We end up going through hell in meditation to quiet our mind, not because somebody says, "You ought to quiet your mind," but because our agitated mind is driving us up the wall, and it's keeping us from getting on with it.

Faith is not a belief. Beliefs are in the head. Faith is in the heart. Faith comes from within you. You cultivate it by opening your spiritual heart and quieting your mind until you feel your identity with your deeper Self. That opening to the deeper Self, when you have quieted your mind. comes through grace. The qualities of that Self are peace, joy, compassion, wisdom, and love.

No matter what someone else does to you, never put anyone out of your heart.

Compassion simply stated is leaving other people alone.

Perhaps the most appropriate initial step in view of your present predicament is to continue with you daily life in the customary manner with the simple addition of a mantra. Such a mantra can initially be used for 15 minutes in the morning and evening as suggested by Maharishi Mahesh in his program for Transcendental Meditation. You can set up a corner of your room for this purpose.

Home is where the heart is. Home is the quality of presence. It's the quality of being. Home is always here.

Now isn't preparation for later. Here and now is it. There is a spaciousness, an acceptance of what is in the moment, that says, "Yes, ah so!" to everything, whether it's ugly, beautiful, boring, confused, dead, angry, the dark night of the soul, or the brilliant light of the spirit. This is just the way it is. And in just the way it is, is the spirit.

Though Peter claimed not to be spiritual, he had found a peaceful place, as I had decades ago, in Quaker meeting

The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight. A. W. TOZER

British preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) said, "Those who are 'beloved of the Lord' must be the most happy and joyful people to be found anywhere upon the face of the earth.