Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. If we can't find peace within ourselves, where is the hope for peace in the world?

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

My soul is in good shape.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another

I have fervently been on both sides of that question at different times.

Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.