Quotes About Peace

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

It's nice when it's quiet. You become human then.' 'And what do people become if it's noisy,then?' 'They become objects, things.

If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.

The goal of the Buddha's teaching is Nibb?na (Sanskrit: Nirv??a). Literally translated, that means "not burning," or in other words, the loss of all passions.

A Tibetan aphorism states, "Let your mind be a gracious host in the midst of unruly guests.

The mind that reaches out to other people, to the environment, to provide what it seems to lack itself, is a mind that is ignorant of its own resources for peace and happiness.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace while there are tears even in a single eye.

As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

The yogi stills his mind by constant study and by freeing himself from desires. The eight stages of Yoga teach him the way.

i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

Slowly the fire died away; nobody spoke. They lay on their backs warming their toes and watching the trembling stars high above and the dark rustling crown of the black poplars etched against the velvet sky.

Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It is based upon a fundamental fraud which, when discovered, turns the individual against society and nourishes the very thing it tries to stamp out. What Jesus offered in return of loving one's enemies was heaven on earth, better known as peace of mind.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence

whose mind is not steady doesn't get happiness either amongst the people or in the loneliness of the jungle. When lonely he longs for company and when in company he yearns for loneliness.

No penance is greater than the one done for maintaining peace, no happiness is better than the one received from satisfaction, no disease is more damaging than greed and no Dharma is better than the one having compassion for all.

When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

There is something called "echo" exhalation that impresses this point even further. Exhale slowly and fully. Pause. Then exhale again. There is always a slight residue left in the lungs. In that residue is to be found the sludge of toxic memory and ego. In that brief further exhalation, let them go - and experience an even deeper state of relief from burden, of peace and emptiness.

The mind does not balance when you force.

Inhalation is tension, exhalation is freedom.

Relaxation begins from the outer layer of the body and penetrates the deep layers of our existence.

When an asana is done correctly, the body movements are smooth, and there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.