Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
Interpretation
Inner peace is essential for achieving outer peace in the world.
This quote emphasizes that true peace in the world can only be realized when individuals first cultivate peace within themselves. External attempts to impose peace through force are ineffective; instead, lasting peace requires personal reflection and a collective effort to foster harmony in our minds.
In practice
During a meditation retreat, to inspire participants to focus on their own inner tranquility.
Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.
When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.
Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction... Today there is a βNOβ which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the βNOβ to war.
It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.
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