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“To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.”

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Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.”

Humans Two Peace Human Beings Simple Existence Calm Two Things Torn Calm And Peace

Book:Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

Source: Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

“But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence.”

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Book:Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community

Source: Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community

“Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.”

Humans Peace Existence Rights Human Rights Permit

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

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Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.”

“Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.”

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Book:Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook

Source: Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook