Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

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

Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.