Quotes About Peace

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or of impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

There is a world-wide yearning for spiritual peace and righteousness on the part of the common man. He is finding it occasionally in established religion, but often, perhaps more often, independently of it.

The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to hope, to popular aspirations for economic prosperity and social peace. The second appeals to fear, to sectional worries about being worsted or swamped by one's historic enemies.

Rabindranath Tagore used the phrase in a letter to a friend in 1921, writing that '…the idea of India is against the intense consciousness of the separateness of one's own people from others, which inevitably leads to ceaseless conflicts.

Ramachandra Guha

promoting concord in the place of discord

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace, make it free from distractions, train it to look inward, and make all this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind. (p. 20)

Surrender, and all will be well. Throw all responsibility onto God. Do not bear the burden yourself. (p. 158)

Note: Some aspirants indulge in severe austerities and arduous practices, mastering several techniques and incidentally attaining extraordinary supernatural powers as well. All these are to be shunned as they do not lead to ultimate peace and joy. On the other hand, the path of Kala Jnana described here is a direct path to mukti.

The srutis and the sages say that the objects are only mental creations. They have no substantive being. Investigate the matter and ascertain the truth of this statement. The result will be the conclusion that the objective world is in the subjective consciousness. The Self is thus the only Reality that permeates and also envelops the world. Since there is no duality, no thoughts will arise to disturb your peace. This is Realization of the Self. (p. 382)

Cuando el mundo desaparece, es decir, cuando no hay pensamiento, la mente experimenta la felicidad, y cuando el mundo aparece, se hunde en la desdicha.

When the world disappears, i.e., when there is no thought, the mind experience happiness; and when the world appears, it goes through misery.