There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
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There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
To meditate means to realize inwardly the imperturbability of the Essence of Mind. _x000D_ _x000D_ The reason why we are perturbed is because we allow ourselves to be carried away by the circumstances we are in. Those who are able to keep their mind unperturbed, irrespective of circumstances, have attained Inner Peace.
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
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