Prem Rawat Quotes

Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.

God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace.

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

I'm going to do what feeds my soul.

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.