You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.
If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
True change is within. Leave the outside as it is.
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.