Peace is impossible to those who look on war. Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible. It is the world you see that is impossible. — A Course in Miracles
One of the fundamental teachings of yoga is that if you encounter a person who is established in nonviolence, you will give up violence in that person’s presence. We each have within us the ability to bring an end to violence. Which is to say that the violence in our midst is our responsibility.
Nation after nation does violence to another, and peace seems ever more elusive. We meet violence with more violence, and then our leaders profess shock and outrage when others do not give up their violence toward us.
Our yoga practice is a nonviolent one. Each aspect of this path teaches us ahimsa, or nonharming, in our dealings with ourselves and others. Pranayama is a profound step in this transformation.
We are intentionally bringing peace to the waters of our minds. This peace, like a ripple moving across the waters of a pond, travels through us and out into the family of all beings. — Rolf Gates, Meditations from the Mat
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