123 quotes found
“To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.”
“Pray as if you possess no will. Work as if everything depends on you.”
“When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?”
“I raise the energiesof the people around me:my presence radiatesunconditional loveand inner peace.”
“We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”
“We know ourselves very little. We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe; far out on a distant edge, hearing a little of ...”
“When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful men. But contrast the reception they will receive when they return home from thei...”
“I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.”
“To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you ...”
“One day the Buddha was sistting with some of his monks in the woods. They had just come back from an almsround and were ready to share a mindful lunch together. A farmer passed by, looking distraug...”
“Most people can hardly imagine what it would be like to be at peace with inner disturbance. But if you do not learn to be comfortable with it, you will devote your life to avoiding it. If you feel ...”
“World peace is really inner peace within each individual mind.”
“You don't have to understand woman. You only have to respect them and understand why.”
“I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened an...”
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”
“I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”
“Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.”