Peaceableness

quoted on the awesome blog Peace And Holiness

"What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subsidized the means of war, we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders. And here we have an inescapable duty to notice also that war is profitable, whereas the means of peaceableness, being cheap or free, make no money." - Wendell Berry

Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God ... May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:7,13


Full context: Romans 15:7-13

What really matters is not just the practice of sitting
but far more the state of mind you find yourself in after meditation.
It is this calm and centered state of mind
you should prolong though everything you do.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche, Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying

Success and failure be the same to you", is a truism to be realized in order to attain a peaceful mind. Whatever God determines should be implicitly believed as for the best. Really, every loss, failure and misfortune is pregnant with absolute good. It must be recognized with full faith that,
at the back of the relative mind, exists a Divinity which causes all its workings - a Divinity which is the very abode of peace and bliss.
- Swami Ramdas

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty [contentment?] and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."

~ Saint Francis of Assisi

equality, peace, and love

I have turned away
From the wealth of the world.
I have a mission,
A great task before me.
In my heart
There is a mighty flame.
I spread the message
Of brotherhood, peace and love.

-- Sri Swami Sivananda