Stephen Gardiner Quotes

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.

When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Peace is its own reward.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.