Quotes About Peace

This is what we're doing by learning to peacefully abide in sitting meditation: creating the space for our garden to grow. Then we can cultivate qualities that will allow us to live our lives in full bloom.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

Meditate with delight and run with joy.

We already have what we need—the opportunity to weave the tapestry of happiness every day with the needle and thread of our own mind.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

What I don't think they realize is that when they pray for a healing, death is a healing... It's not the healing that you might want, but as sure as we're born, we're going to die. And we're healed from the troubles of this world.

But why would we mistake an abundance of information for peace of mind?

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.

Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely.

When we take the time to breathe, listen, and rest from the daily grind, we will slowly but surely begin to see miracles bubbling up in our lives.

Of course we are called to be instruments of His peace, to live righteous lives, and to care for others. But ultimately, our calling is to bring glory to God and to let Him perfect us into the image bearers He always meant us to be. I think sometimes we can bring much more glory to God by being cheerful and delighting in the world and people He has given us than by living a "useful" life where we trot grimly around with a martyr complex that annoys everyone we encounter.

As long as we believe we can control life by trying, controlling, manipulating, putting pressure on life, we will live in constant exhaustion. We learn daily of our need for His Spirit to live through us because we are inadequate in ourselves. We learn to give up expectations that life will ever be perfect and to be content in the midst of the chaos.

Accepting reality and deciding to love our unique puzzle brings a freedom and sense of peace that can only come from surrendering to the life that we have been given.

When you make a mistake or otherwise find yourself behaving like a human, the best practice is to leave it at the stream. Don't carry it around like that angry monk who kept obsessing about the other monk's behavior. Just lay that burden down and let it go.

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I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

Outer beauty won't remain forever but inner beauty does. Don't run after outer beauty. Because of it can be a huge mistake when you chose outer beauty instead of inner beauty. And that will leave you with regression. Only try to know and get the inner beauty of somebody or something. It will bring peace inside of you.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.