Peace Quotes

The world around us   conforms to expectations      we place upon it.

~ J. Benson

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The fact is, inner peace isn't something that comes when you finally paint the whole house a nice shade of cream and start drinking herbal tea. Inner peace is something that is shaped by the wisdom that 'this too shall pass' and is fired in the kiln of self-knowledge...

~ Tania Ahsan

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

~ Tony Samara

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You.

~ Tony Samara

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

~ Tony Samara

The practice is simple. Whatever you're doing, do that with total awareness.

~ Tony Samara

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

~ Tony Samara

The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.

~ Tony Samara

Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

~ Tony Samara

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.

~ Tony Samara

Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.

~ Tony Samara

The Divine has created this moment in time. It is a very powerful moment, where there is only one way and that way is that you completely let go. Completely let go of what is known, what is safe, and move into the space of beauty.

~ Tony Samara

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

~ Tony Samara

Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, remember to utilize discernment so that you can hear and sense and feel the vibration of love rather than the vibration of illusion.

~ Tony Samara

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

~ Tony Samara

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn't exclusive to the attachments the ego enjoys playing with, but rather a free state of mind that is part of loving kindness and its activities inside and outside of oneself.

~ Tony Samara

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

~ Tony Samara

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Meditation, practiced individually and as a family, helps with a different type of peace. It is not a calm absent of noise and confusion but a calm that persists in the very center of the noise and the chaos. Ten minutes daily can transform your life.

~ Ann Brasco

Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.

~ Kevin Michel

It looks like fallen petals, and it looks like rain. It looks like the sounds the birds make at dawn. It looks like the aisle of grocery stores when a song I love suddenly begins to play overhead, and I cannot help but dance a little dance. It looks like a sigh, a kiss, an unmade bed. It looks like Cheerios in a white bowl with a bit of silence on the side. It looks like a plain vanilla cupcake in white paper, a dance with the wind, pink toenails, warm socks. It looks like a fire against the cold of winter, and a deep lake cool against a summer sky. It looks like chick flicks, books that make you cry, and all the candles blown out on the first try.

~ D. Smith Kaich Jones

Breathe and Be RebornInto the LightnessOf your Heart and Inner Truths.Speak...in the Silence of Dreams,Knowing the wordsBring the peace into your Soul.Radiant the Love that is your True Selfand Again...Be Reborn.

~ Jennifer Hillman

The innumerable phenomena of life are temporary manifestations of LifeParticles.Once we know that everything comes and goes in a flux of LifeParticles, we can watch ourselves and the world with tranquility.

~ Ilchi Lee

Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn’t develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It’s then and exactly then that you’re sensing the true nature of the universe, you’re linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you’re content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there’s the only place to be.

~ Tom Robbins

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures, which she cared not in her laziness to have fully explained before they passed away; the stroll down to the beach to breathe the sea-air, soft and warm on the sandy shore even at the end of November; the great long misty sea-line touching the tender-coloured sky; the white sail of a distant boat turning silver in some pale sunbeam: - it seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in the world as it is. Most people’s experience in this state is peaceful and rejuvenating.

~ Andrew Furst

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

~ Tara Brach

The path towards peace is not for the righteous, the ethical, the active and the compassionate to shit on the malicious, the complacent, the violent and the ignorant. The path towards peace is to be peaceful.

~ Ilyas Kassam

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

~ Sri Chinmoy