Mind precede its objects. They are mind-governed and mind-made. To speak or act with a peaceful mind is to draw happiness after oneself, like an unseparable shadow.
- Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Theresa, 1979 Nobel Laureate
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When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on.
- His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tiber, Nobel Laureate.
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Peace is an easy word to say in any language.
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Permanent Representative of Peru to the United States, 1988 Nobel Laureate (accepting on behalf of the Blue Berets).
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If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
- Thich Nhat Hahn, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk and Peace Facilitator
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Your Motive, if you are to find peace, must be an outgoing motive - it must be service. It must be giving, not getting.
- Peace Pilgrim, 1981 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.
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Peace is not a merely distant goal that we seek but a means by which we create that goal.
- Dr. Marting Luther King, 1964 Nobel Laureate
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If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
- Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Laureate, the "father of the Green Revolution."
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First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others.
- Thomas a Kempis, Augustine monk 1379-1471.
If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have paece and harmony in our environment, we must establish it in ourselves.
- Charles Filmore, Unity cofounder (with his wife, Myrtle).
They built Unity around 5 spiritual principles:
The omnipresence of god
The divine essence of humankind
The power of mind
The power of prayer
The necessity of action following belief
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