Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.
Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.
