Inner peace
Inner Peace is built on the foundations of many spiritual practices and denotes a state of well-being and calm. It is also known as "inner contentment", "serenity" and "happiness". Most spiritual practices refer to inner peace as an experience of knowing oneself.
Inner peace in the scriptures
- Budhism - This is peace, this is the excellent, namely the calm of all the impulses, the casting out of all basis, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping, Nirvana. Anguttara Nikaya v.322
- Christianity - Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. The Bible, John 14.27
- Confucianism - The Master said, "In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content!", Analects 4.8
- Hinduism - As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage. Bhagavad Gita 2.70
- Islam - In the remembrance of God do hearts find satisfaction. Qur'an 13.28
- Judaism - May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace. The Bible, Numbers 6.26
- Sikhism - If a man sings of God and hears of Him,| And lets love of God sprout within him,| All his sorrows shall vanish,| And in his mind, God will bestow abiding peace. Adi Granth, Japuji 5, M.1, p. 2
- Taoism - Men do not mirror themselves in running water, they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things. Chuang Tzu 5
Inner peace in philosophy and poetry
Throughout history, philosophers, poets and thinkers have spoken about Inner peace:
- "Know Thyself" Thales of Miletus
- "He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." Marcus Aurelius
- "Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves." Eleanor Roosevelt
- "A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." William Shakespeare
- "What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen." Henry David Thoreau
- "The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts." Sir Arthur Kent
- "We talk about world peace. Peace needs to be in the heart of every human being because that is where it belongs." Maharaji
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