Carlos Castaneda Quotes

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

When Zen masters say 'effortlessness' they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort; now you can be relaxed and at ease, it will grow on its own accord. It will bring much foliage, and many flowers, and many blessings.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance.