Inner Peace Quotes

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

How do I become still?By flowing with the stream.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.

We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

Genuine peace is based on inner peace, because you cannot build peace on the basis of anger

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

Beyond what we wishand what we fear may happenwe have another life,as clear and free as a mountain stream.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

The best way to win is to not need to.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

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.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

Fear gone, there can be no hatred.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.

Peace is its own reward.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people.

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.

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.