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Those who practice the Art of Peace must protect the domain of Mother Nature, the divine reflection of creation, and keep it lovely and fresh. Warriorship gives birth to natural beauty. The subtle techniques of a warrior arise as naturally as the appearance of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Warriorship is none other than the vitality that sustains all life.
Appearance | Art | Birth | Mother | Peace | Practice | Reflection | Art |
Morrie Schwartz, fully Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz
Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.
Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Because God can no longer be spoken of in the schools, you are the ones who must teach your children about God. But your teaching must be in accord with science and the modern day. And it must be done in a manner which is appropriate for their hearts and will stir their love. Show them the love and truth that are the essence of God. Show them equality, tranquility, and peace of mind. If you can embrace your children with good qualities and show them a good path, they will accept what you say. Otherwise, they will never accept it.
Children | God | Good | Love | Peace | Qualities | Teach | Truth | Will | God |
Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
What we are slaves to will prevent us from praying to God. If we are slaves to all the thoughts we think, if we are slaves to everything our eyes see, if we are slaves to all the music our ears hear, if we are slaves to everything the nose smells and the tongue tastes, if we are slaves to everything the body wants, then how can we ever reach a state of peace? We can never know peace or tranquility this way. We have to escape from this slavery and become a slave only to God.
Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
One who has not found peace within himself will forever be giving speeches about peace. This world is a pulpit upon which man preaches, and there is no end to this talk! For millions of years man has been speaking this way, but he has not come forward to first find peace within himself. There is no use in making speeches. Man must acquire the qualities of God and live in that state. Only then can he speak of peace, only then can he speak the speech of God and dispense the justice of God's kingdom.
Giving | God | Justice | Man | Peace | Qualities | Speech | Will | World | God |
Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Everything in this world changes; only God remains the same forever. If mankind will realize this truth, then we can avert disaster by coming together with faith in God and living in unity and compassion. Do not live divided. With compassion for each other, live in unity and truth, in the presence of God. Live according to justice and conscience, respecting the lives and bodies of all others as your own, and knowing the hunger and the suffering of others as your own. Have patience, contentment, trust in God, and live praising God at all times, and peace will be easy.
Compassion | Faith | God | Hunger | Justice | Knowing | Mankind | Peace | Suffering | Trust | Unity | Will | World | God |
Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Here and in the hereafter, we must embrace all those who with absolute faith accept Allah in their hearts. We must pray to Allah in a state of unity, peacefulness, and truth, and then give greetings of peace to each brother. Standing face to face, our eyes looking directly into our brother's eyes, our hands clasping his hands, and our hearts embracing his heart with love, we must say, "May the peace of God be upon you." This is the unity and beauty of Islam, the beauty that Muhammad (Sal.) brought to the people. Wherever we go, our hearts must be in that state. Our prayers must be one-pointed, directed toward the same place, toward Allah, the One who is truth. If we can recite the praises of Allah and the Prophet, then look each other in the eye, give peaceful greetings, and embrace each other — if we can achieve that oneness of the heart with all lives, then we will be true believers.
Absolute | Beauty | Faith | God | Heart | Oneness | Peace | Unity | Will | Beauty | God |
Nāgārjuna, fully Acharya Nāgārjuna NULL
He who does not attempt to make peace when small discords arise, is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey. Soon, the whole hive collapses.
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Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Our house is God's house. If our state is correct, our heart (qalb) is God's house, God's kingdom, God's justice, love, compassion, and unity. Before this state of beautiful peace and unity comes, we need a place in which to meet, unite, understand, think, and reflect every minute and second, establishing relationships of unity and peace. Instead of wasting time in the world, we can go to this place five or six times a day to do prayers and worship. We can gather at God's house, focus on God, think about God, pray to God, and remember God. It is for this purpose that we are building this place.
Day | Focus | Heart | Need | Peace | Purpose | Purpose | Time | Unity | Think |
Bawa Mahaiyadden, fully Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
My children, Allah's greetings of peace and supplications, His salams and salawats, resonate there in that water of divine knowledge. There you will find His representatives, His prophets, His olis, qutbs, auliya' and all those who know Him. Every second, every minute, they are praying and resonating with that beauty of Allah. Whoever falls into this water of divine knowledge will keep changing, until the taste of Allah is within him and he becomes the beauty of Allah.
Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done. All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. Every step of the way I believe that God has been with me. And, more than ever, I know that he is with me now. I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. l am still learning.
Courage | Endurance | God | Heart | Journey | Life | Life | Patience | Peace | Soul | Strength | Will | Work | God | Understand |
The happiness in the only possible meaning .. Is a state of peace between the visible and subcontractors and between man himself and others and between man and between God both outwardly and inwardly as if they were in the other units, and the individual becomes like us and everyone... As if all the birds are singing to him and speak his language
God | Individual | Man | Meaning | Peace | God | Happiness |
The happiness in the only possible meaning is a state of peace between the visible and subcontractors and between man himself and others and between man and between God. Venskb both outwardly and inwardly as if they were in the other units, and the individual becomes like us and everyone .. And as if all the birds are singing to him and speak his language.
Individual | Man | Meaning | Peace | Happiness |
When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
“No road to peace exists other than that of the narrow path whose name is conversion.
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Nelson Mandela, fully Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.
Action | Defiance | Majority | Order | Organization | Peace | People |