Philosophy on peace
9 passages from 4 thinkers — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Buddha, Baruch Spinoza — on peace.
“How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does.”
“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.”
“Well, Lord, is the soul the same as the body, is the soul one thing and the body another?”
“Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.”
“Leaving behind son and wife, and father and mother, and wealth and grain, and relatives, and sensual pleasures to the limit, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.”
“The brahman Kasibhāradvāja addressed the Blessed One with a verse.”
“I will not take final Nirvana until I have nuns and female disciples who are accomplished... until I have laywomen followers...who will.... teach the Dhamma”