Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
Talk peaceful to be peaceful.
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.
I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I am looking for in life is the same as I always have; happiness, peacefulness and joy. And that's all I'm going to say about that because otherwise I'd get into trouble
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.
If you want to be a civilised man, first you have to be a non-violent man! If you want to be a civilised country, first you have to be a non-violent country! Violence is the means of the sick minds; peacefulness is the means of the healthy minds!
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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