No outward thing - nothing, nobody from without - can hurt me inside, psychologically. I recognized that I could only be hurt psychologically by my own wrong actions, which I have control over; by my own wrong reactions (they are tricky, but I have control over them too); or by my own inaction in some situations, like the present world situation, that need action from me. When I recognized all this how free I felt! And I just stopped hurting myself.
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
nor do illusions fight against the truth.
Illusions battle only with themselves.
I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned from this war.
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.
There is nothing outside you.
That is what you must ultimately learn.
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along a path indicated to you by heaven and earth.
Peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
are far off the path.
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
If the slayer thinks that he kills and if the slain thinks that he dies, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill, the Eternal in man cannot die.
but we can't bomb it into peace.
We must not bring one war to an end-- or thirty-- but the idea of war itself.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.We have guided missiles and misguided men.
The Ultimate Weakness of Violence By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.