Inner Peace Quotes

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

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

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

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

Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

Be at ease, not dis-ease.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

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

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

Peace… starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

True happiness lies within you.

A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

A man should carry nature in his head.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses. In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.

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

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.