“there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
“there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
On New Year, Pope Wishes the Faithful a 2020 of Peace, Voice of America, (1 January 2020)
2020s, 2020
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel at Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel (21 March 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/21/remarks-president-barack-obama-people-israel <br class="br">2013
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
"Fifth Talk in Bombay 1950 (12 March 1950) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=352&chid=4672&w=%22Truth+is+not+something+in+the+distance%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 500312, The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 134 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.
“Retraining your mind is the path to peace.”
Rami M. Shapiro (1951) American rabbi
While your mind is out for retraining, you get to relax in peace.
A tweet on his Holy Rascals @rabbirami Twitter account, Oct 4 2017
“Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Antonio Machado book Kampos di Kastilia
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino,
sino estelas en la mar.
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.”
Antonio Machado book Kampos di Kastilia
"Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)
Context: Wanderer, your footprints are
the path, and nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
the path is made by walking.
Walking makes the path,
and on glancing back
one sees the path
that will never trod again.
Wanderer, there is no path—
Just steles in the sea.
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Robert J. Sawyer book Calculating God
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 137)
“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
Quoted various times by different characters in all three books.
Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy)
Source: Sabriel