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

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

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The outer world writhes and thrashes and appears to threaten turning over onto itself. From the Gulf Coast to the Middle East, from Haitian earthquake to Icelandic volcano, folly, blame, and vengeance reign.

Stop! Breathe deeply. Begin bringing peace to the outer world by regaining your own inner peace. Choose love, choose gratitude, choose forgiveness, choose peace. Begin with your own inner peace. Then use that inner peace as a platform from which to approach the outer world with perspective, understanding, patience, kindness, and a love for all people.

Further reading: Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress

The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Dalai Lama Quotes

UNITY - the eighth Point of Simply An Inspired Life

I Pray for Peace in the Middle East

Whatever you do, do with kindness. Whatever you say, say with kindness. Wherever you go, radiate kindness. - jlh