Quotes About Peace

When you lack inner order, it is easy to be overwhelmed by a multitude of possibilities, all of which compete for attention and time—and none of which achieve the desired peace.

Seeking out the Word helps immensely, I've found. It helps to push out the distractions that can cause confusion.

God holds my tomorrows, she thought. I will be content with whatever comes my way.

Pray, and let God worry. —Martin Luther

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough. Not that I don't want to question. Ach, I surely do. But in the three years since Benuel's death, I've learned that peace comes with that kind of givin' up . . . and, not to boast, but my faith has grown because of it, too.

She stretched, relaxing in the comfortable bed as she recalled that Dawdi Jeremiah believed wholeheartedly that if a person would simply lie in bed for twenty minutes before rising, the day would go more smoothly.

Seek revenge and you shall dig two graves, one for yourself.

Seeing Your great effulgent and various-colored form touching the sky; Your mouth wide open and large shining eyes; I am frightened and find neither peace nor courage, O Krishna.

Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.

The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Serenity is the flavor of meditation...

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.