Tara Brach Quotes

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Peace is our gift to each other.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.