Inner Peace Quotes - Page 16

• Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself.

  Jhene Aiko

  Thinking, Wind, Important

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• Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Inner Strength, Quality

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• When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mind, Causes, Absence

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love (Anniv)”, p.181, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
  No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
  from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

  Paul Brunton

  Important, Matter, Panic

  Paul Brunton, Wisdom's Goldenrod, Ltd (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Advanced contemplation. The peace within you”

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• Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, Silence, Needs

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• If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Ifs, Loses

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Broken, Profound, Serenity

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Reality, Keys

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• Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Respect, Prayer

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• There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace.
  
  Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Energy, Down And

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.51, Penguin

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

  Dalai Lama

  Genuine, Bases

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

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Degrees, Found

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• It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  World, Our Family

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• Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Yoga

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• I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Energy, Growing, Consciousness

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Hands, Feelings

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• Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

  Dalai Lama

  Violence, Absence, Interest

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• Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Integrity, Aspect, Our Lives

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• When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.9, Tharpa Publications UK

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• All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Discipline, Religion

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• Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Self, Concern For Others

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• Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Meditation, Important, Source

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.301, Tharpa Publications UK

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• When we live moment to moment, we place ourselves at the center of life, where infinite wisdom abides, rather than on the periphery, where things are forever changing and we are susceptible to the vagaries of the world. It is in our awareness each moment of our oneness with God that our inner peace and greatest strength lie.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Lying, Oneness, Forever

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• We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.

  Thomas Keating

  Heart, Oneness, Profound

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Happiness, Habit, Break

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