Quotes About Peace

Disengaging means you leave these things alone and you're not concerned or worried about them.

Your job is to be free, not to carry around the so-called attainments or failures of the past.

it's not the sound that disturbs you; it's you who disturbs the sound.

it's the nature of the mind to be restless.

Contentment is the only time you have enough.

Freedom is being content to be where you are.

Do not fear delight in meditation. Happiness in meditation is important! Moreover, you deserve to bliss out. Blissing out on the breath is an essential part of the path. So when delight does arise alongside the breath, cherish and guard it like a valuable treasure.

The pure heart is a happy heart.

gripping.You can attain this degree of stillness only by letting go of everything in the entire universe except for this momentary experience of the breath happening silently.

The forest is peaceful, why aren't you? You hold onto things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird's song then let go. If you know nature, you'll know Dhamma. If you know Dhamma, you'll know nature.

When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.

Remember you don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is, and they would put an end to it.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it.

I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you!

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Love is necessary to satisfy the mind, ethics to satisfy the conscience, and spiritual seeking for peace of soul. Without food and clothes, the body becomes thin and weak. Without eroticism, the mind becomes restless and unsatisfied. Without virtue (ethics), the conscience goes astray. Without spirituality, the soul is degraded.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Beneath his zen-like tranquility lurks something wounded… and dangerous.