Quotes About Peace

Tutto va Bene, All is Well.

War is the least productive of men's pastimes, and the most indulgent.

If, like the Romans, he must make a desert and call it peace, so be it.

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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

These four qualities are among the most beautiful and powerful states of consciousness we can experience. Together they are called in Pali, the language spoken by the Buddha, the brahma-viharas. Brahma means "heavenly." Vihara means "abode" or "home." By practicing these meditations, we establish love (Pali, metta), compassion (karuna), sympathetic joy (mudita), and equanimity (upekkha) as our home.

The Dalai Lama has said: "My religion is kindness." If we all adopted such a stance and embodied it in thought and action, inner and outer peace would be immediate, for in reality they are never not present, only obscured, waiting to be discovered. This is the work and the power of lovingkindness, the embrace that allows no separation between self, others, and events—the affirmation and honoring of a core goodness in others and in oneself.

look at the world with quiet eyes.

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.

We have one impermanent experience, and, unable to be at peace as it passes, we reach out and grab for another, The Tibetan Buddhist tradition defines renunciation as accepting what comes into our lives and letting go of what leaves our lives. To renounce in this sense is to come to a state of simple being.

Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.

Ask yourself, 'who is the one suffering from this anger? The person who has harmed me has gone on to live their life (or perhaps has died), while I am the one sitting here feeling the persecution, burning and constriction of anger. Out of compassion for myself, to ease my own heart, may I let go.

May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease.

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.

You can access the forces of mindfulness and lovingkindness at any moment, without anyone knowing you're doing it. You don't have to walk excruciatingly slowly down the streets of a major metropolis alarming everyone around you (in fact, please don't);

It is a state of peace to be able to accept things as they are. This is to be at home in our own lives. We see that this universe is much too big to hold on to, but it is the perfect size for letting go. Our hearts and minds become that big, and we can actually let go. This is the gift of equanimity.