A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
Interpretation
True peace begins within oneself, and only those who embody it can teach others.
This quote emphasizes that one cannot teach peace effectively if they are filled with fear and inner turmoil. It suggests that genuine peace must first be cultivated internally, and only then can individuals authentically impart that peace to others. The responsibility of achieving peace lies within each person, and the quote calls for self-reflection and personal growth as the pathway to a harmonious world.
In practice
During a speech on mental health, one might emphasize that true well-being starts from within.
When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I’m the one who can stop hurting me. It’s within my power.
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.
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