If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Peace
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
-Desiderius Erasmus
"Adagia"
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
-John Lennon
That which gives pleasure to one man gives pain to another. That sage who identifies himself with the imperishable Self and stands as a spectator of the mental modifications enjoys supreme peace and infinite bliss.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-Virginia Woolf
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to to bring peace to all.
-Dalai Lama "The XIV Dalai Lama"
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
-Scriptures " Anguttara Nikaya"
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Mantra-exercise annuls the negative, the selfish, the sinful elements in us, and creates peace, bliss, well-being and success.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Omkarananda"
