Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.
When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.
If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.
Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.
Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.
Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.
Meditation takes us from survival to creation; from separation to connection; from imbalance to balance; from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode; and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love.