Inner Peace Quotes

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”

“A man should carry nature in his head.”

“My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

“Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.”

“The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.”

“Everyone is overridden by thoughts;that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.”

“Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

“I lost everything i have, found myself.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”

“Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.”

“When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.”

“That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.”

“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”

“You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.”

“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.”

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.”

“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness”