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Peace We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~Dalai Lama If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth. ~Anthony de Mello Find joy and peace in this very moment. ~Thich Nhat Hanh Discover within your own heart an eternal wellspring of true peace and lasting fulfillment. ~Gangaji When you deeply accept this moment as it is–no matter what form it takes–you are still, you are at peace. ~Eckhart Tolle The capacity to receive is natural. Whatever we fully embrace always reveals peace. ~Gangaji Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. ~Unknown The loving mind can observe peace and joy in one moment, and then grief in the next moment, and it will not be shattered by the change. A mind filled with love can be likened to the sky with a variety of clouds moving through it–some light and fluffy, others ominous and threatening. No matter what the situation, the sky is not threatened by the clouds. It is free. ~Sharon Salzberg True peace comes with the discovery that we can respect the seasons of life with a spacious and undefended heart. In it we learn to trust, to rest in the truth of the way things are, to willingly accept the measure of joy and sorrow we are given. ~Jack Kornfield The mind can go in a thousand different directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. ~Thich Nhat Hanh When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent. Not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, you are neither holy nor wise, just an ordinary fellow who has completed his work. ~Layman P’ang Peace is the natural by-product of love, which is the natural by-product of freedom. ~Jana Pierce van Loon Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ~Swami Sivananda When there is no desire, all things are at peace. ~Lao Tzu No longer fascinated with your internal and external conflicts, you start to see what you really are. ~Adyashanti Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. ~Eckhart Tolle Minds free, thoughts gone. Brows clear, faces serene. ~Chuang Tzu Grasping too tightly to the things of this world, attachments arise. Holding only to how we want it to be, anger is born. Not understanding the inevitability of change, confusion clouds the mind. Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. ~Bhaghavad Gita There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Peace is already here, it is within you, in front of you, you only need to be in touch with it. You do not need to chase it. The act of chasing is only wasting your energy and confusing you, and taking you away from peace. ~Thich Nhat Hanh You are Happiness, you are Peace, you are Freedom. Do not entertain any notions that you are in trouble. Be kind to yourself. Open to your Heart and simply Be. ~Papaji If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace. ~Lao-Tzu Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there is in silence. ~Max Ehrmann The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. ~Byron Katie You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ~Virginia Woolf Before you have freed yourself from your mind–you may get glimpses of true joy, true love, or of a deep inner peace, still but vibrantly alive. These are aspects of your true nature. ~Eckhart Tolle One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. ~Lao Tzu There can never be peace between nations until it is first known that true peace is within the souls of men. ~Oglala Sioux Peace of simply being is not only a reward in itself but a blessing to all who encounter it. ~Catherine Ingram Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ~Buddha Be peace, don’t just talk about it. ~Thich Nhat Hanh By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. ~Ram Dass Peace…comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the Universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. ~Black Elk Peace and war start within one’s own home. If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families. ~Mother Teresa When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~Sri Chinmoy Ghose How can we live in harmony? First, we need to know we are all madly in Love with the same God. ~St. Thomas Aquinas Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest. ~F. B. Meyer Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great wealth. ~Eckhart Tolle When we trust in life enough to give up our need for control, we can relax and open to the flow of energy in our lives. This brings peace of mind. ~The Daily Guru If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. ~Thomas Merton Assess not, compare not! Just be fully present and still, and let the Universe bless you abundantly with Peace and Eternal Love. ~Ernest Fokove The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Theresa Peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one’s soul. ~Ralph W. Trine When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. ~François de la Rochefoucauld Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me. ~Bob Talbert Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the arguments of the earth. ~Walt Whitman Better than a thousand hollow words, Is one word that brings peace. ~Buddha Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ~Mahatma Gandhi Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. ~Thich Nhat Hanh People say “I want peace.” If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. ~Satya Sai Baba Peace is a well from which the streams of joy runs. ~Gaelic proverb Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. It is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present, you will never find it. ~Thomas Merton Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. ~Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within. ~Dan Millman Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. ~César Chávez First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. ~Confucius Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. ~Gerald Jampolsky One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul. ~W. Somerset Maughan Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind. ~Huanchu Daoren When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile ~William Cowper When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. ~Peace Pilgrim If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go. ~Ewart L. Udall Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. ~Ajahn Chah Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself. ~Mahatma Gandhi Just as a mountain of rock, is unwavering, well-settled, so the monk whose delusion is ended, like a mountain, is undisturbed. ~Udana Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is radiant. It is triumphant. ~Thomas R. Kelly Stop the war within yourself and you will do the world and humanity the greatest service. ~Ajahn Sumanobhikku