When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.Collection: Peace
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.Collection: Peace
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.Collection: Peace
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.Collection: Peace
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.Collection: Love
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?Collection: Peace
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.Collection: Power
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.Collection: Freedom
I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.Collection: Diet
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.Collection: Age
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.Collection: Thinking
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.Collection: Life
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems, you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.Collection: Opportunity
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.Collection: Evil
I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.Collection: Stress
Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.Collection: Thinking
Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!Collection: Teacher
After you have found inner peace you have endless energy - the more you give, the more you receive. After you have found your calling, you work easily and joyously. You never get tired.Collection: Tired
For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.Collection: Spiritual
When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.Collection: Love
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.Collection: People
The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.Collection: Needs
It is not through judgment that the good in people can be reached, but through love and faith.Collection: People
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.Collection: Unnecessary
A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.Collection: Spiritual
Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.Collection: Light
If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.Collection: Hurt
The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.Collection: Balance
THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.Collection: Army
Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.Collection: Running