Quotes About Peace

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

Seeing in myself this purity of livelihood, I found great solace in dwelling in the forest.

thus he is one who reunites those who are divided, a promoter of friendships, who enjoys concord, rejoices in concord, delights in concord, a speaker of words that promote concord.

Speech can break lives, create enemies, and start wars, or it can give wisdom, heal divisions, and create peace. This has always been so, yet in the modern age the positive and negative potentials of speech have been vastly multiplied by the tremendous increase in the means, speed, and range of communications.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.

Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down

Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

When I was burdened with worries, you comforted me and made me feel secure.

A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.