A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.
Interpretation
True peace begins within oneself, and only those who embody it can teach others.
This quote emphasizes that one cannot teach peace effectively if they are filled with fear and inner turmoil. It suggests that genuine peace must first be cultivated internally, and only then can individuals authentically impart that peace to others. The responsibility of achieving peace lies within each person, and the quote calls for self-reflection and personal growth as the pathway to a harmonious world.
In practice
During a speech on mental health, one might emphasize that true well-being starts from within.
When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.
It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not a possibility. It’s only when I believe a stressful thought that I get hurt. And I’m the one who’s hurting me by believing what I think. This is very good news, because it means that I don’t have to get someone else to stop hurting me. I’m the one who can stop hurting me. It’s within my power.
I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.
Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege.
When you welcome your emotions as teachers, _x000D_ every emotion brings good news, _x000D_ even the ones that are painful.
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
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