More Quotes About Inner-Peace

When you find inner peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with yourself and others.

It is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”

― Gerald G. Jampolsky

 “Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.”

― Bohdi Sanders

 “Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.”

― Sanaya Roman

It doesn’t take very long for each of us to accumulate an emotional history. A child burns her hand on a stove and a fear of fire begins; in a tender moment, a hand is slapped and a fear of love begins. Our emotional associations and reflexes run deep. Often, the heart breathes beneath all our associations like a soft, sandy bottom waiting underwater.

Thus, to see ourselves clearly, we must try to still our associations till we are as transparent as a calm lake. When still enough and clear enough, others can also see through to our bottom. It makes love possible again. But paradoxically, when someone is moved to reach for us, their fingers stir things up, sending ripples everywhere, and we and they can often lose sight of what matters.

All this affirms the need to stay with our feelings long enough for the emotional associations—the ripples—to settle. No one can escape this. No matter how young or old you may be, no matter how innocent or experienced you are, if you’ve been awake and alive and in any kind of relationship that has in any way been real, your waters will stir, your emotions will ripple. It seems the only way we can truly know our own depth is to wait for our associations and reflexes to subside, till we are clear as a lake again. Only when what gets stirred up settles can we see ourselves and each other clearly.

~From ‘The Book of Awakening’ by Mark Nepo

Whatever you’re worrying about…

- 40% will never happen, for anxiety is the result of a tired mind,
- 30% concerns old decisions which cannot be altered,
- 12% centers in criticism, mostly untrue, made by people who feel inferior,
- 10% is related to my health which worsens while I worry,
and only
- 8% is “legitimate,” showing that life does have real problems which may be met head-on when I have eliminated senseless worries.