Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

No violent extreme endures.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Confine yourself to the present.

You can’t do something forever.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Let go of yesterday.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.