Holly Near Quotes

If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love.

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.

We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of our families. This is how we can create a more peaceful world.

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.

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

There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

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

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

Peace begins with a smile.

I really love peace and quiet.

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

If you want to change the world - I do - you have to start with yourself.

It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.

It is not the world that needs peace, it is people. When people in the world are at peace within, the world will be at peace.

Love is definitely a foundation, a spiritual connection that makes peace. Also it is the change in the world. People don't get so hung up on it any more as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.