No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.
Interpretation
Inner peace is invaluable and worth any sacrifice to achieve.
This quote emphasizes the significance of inner peace and how it transcends everyday concerns and knowledge. It suggests that true peace is accessible within ourselves and is intrinsically connected to our existence, encouraging us to explore our inner selves to attain this valuable state of harmony.
In practice
In a meditation retreat, this quote can be shared to inspire participants to seek their inner calm.
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.
Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth
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Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.
The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation β the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)
The only sure way to eliminate the threat posed by nuclear weapons is to eliminate the weapons themselves.
Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
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