Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Peace

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Quotes drawn from the Bhagavad Gita 501 quotes, each linked to the shloka behind it.

Discover Bhagavad Gita quotes on peace, and how a controlled mind, selfless action and devotion lead to calm that outer events cannot easily shake.

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Work done without a price tag ends in a peace that cannot be bought.
Bhagavad Gita 2.51
The world touches your senses; it need not touch your peace.
Bhagavad Gita 5.9
The nearer you are to yourself, the nearer you are to peace.
Bhagavad Gita 5.26
Peace at the end begins with peace in the ordinary hour.
Bhagavad Gita 8.5
Peace comes not at the end of the climb but at the letting go.
Bhagavad Gita 12.12
A peaceful mind is the same in comfort and in hardship.
Bhagavad Gita 6.7
Practise steadily, and peace arrives like a guest who stays.
Bhagavad Gita 6.15
You cannot chase peace; you can only arrange your life to receive it.
Bhagavad Gita 2.66
Outer pleasures are visitors; inner peace is the resident.
Bhagavad Gita 5.21
Peace of mind and purity of heart make happiness complete.
Bhagavad Gita 6.27
Don't wait for life to calm down; practise peace while it's busy.
Bhagavad Gita 2.66
Sometimes the missing thing is peace, and no power can supply it.
Bhagavad Gita 2.8
However you understand life, there is a way to meet it with calm.
Bhagavad Gita 2.26
What small thing could make your mind a little more serene today?
Bhagavad Gita 2.65
As wind rests in the sky, all life rests in the sacred.
Bhagavad Gita 9.6
Be an ocean: let every desire arrive and none overflow you.
Bhagavad Gita 2.70
One fraction of the infinite holds the whole universe; trust it.
Bhagavad Gita 10.42
There are moments when courage and peace both seem to vanish; they return.
Bhagavad Gita 11.24
When you know what does not change, change disturbs you less.
Bhagavad Gita 14.2
Let sorrow pass through like weather, not move in like a tenant.
Bhagavad Gita 2.56
The peak of practice is a mind that wants nothing from the day.
Bhagavad Gita 6.4
Beyond calm, restless and dull, there is something steady.
Bhagavad Gita 7.13
A steady mind at the final hour is the reward of a steady life.
Bhagavad Gita 8.10
Time is vaster than we imagine, and our worries are small within it.
Bhagavad Gita 8.17
Trust the stillness that surrounds your every movement.
Bhagavad Gita 9.6
Intelligence and forgiveness, truth and calm: all are gifts, not trophies.
Bhagavad Gita 10.4
When you see the one root, the many branches stop being rivals.
Bhagavad Gita 13.31
Clarity is when you are fully present to what is in front of you.
Bhagavad Gita 14.11
Clarity-based action brings peace; craving-based action brings strain.
Bhagavad Gita 14.16
Non-violence, truth and calm: three companions for a gentle life.
Bhagavad Gita 16.2
A simple life with a clear conscience outweighs a rich life with a heavy one.
Bhagavad Gita 2.5
Know yourself, quiet your wanting, and you are almost home.
Bhagavad Gita 5.26
Stillness is the reward of steady work, not a substitute.
Bhagavad Gita 6.3
Truth, self-control and calm are available to everyone who seeks them.
Bhagavad Gita 10.4
You cannot find where the world begins or ends; rest in the middle.
Bhagavad Gita 11.16
Let both desired and undesired events pass through you calmly.
Bhagavad Gita 13.10
Everywhere you go, you are inside something that surrounds you.
Bhagavad Gita 13.14
Calm and understanding are gifts, not achievements to boast of.
Bhagavad Gita 14.6
When your senses feel alive and your mind feels calm, cherish it.
Bhagavad Gita 14.11
Self-abiding is feeling at home inside, whatever happens outside.
Bhagavad Gita 14.24
Watch your senses as you would watch children at play.
Bhagavad Gita 5.9
A heart that rests in the divine is the most united of all.
Bhagavad Gita 6.47
Rest in the thought that what ends only returns to its source.
Bhagavad Gita 8.18
Do not avoid the topic of endings; understanding them brings calm.
Bhagavad Gita 8.23
Return to simple faith whenever the world feels circular.
Bhagavad Gita 9.3
The cycle of getting and spending is tiring; look for rest.
Bhagavad Gita 9.21
Seeing the eternal Lord of all makes small fears seem small.
Bhagavad Gita 10.3
Understanding the greatness of the whole makes small troubles small.
Bhagavad Gita 10.7
The day and the night are the open and closed eyes of the world.
Bhagavad Gita 11.19
Arrive at your true home, and the journey stops repeating.
Bhagavad Gita 15.6
You belong to something that was never absent and will not vanish.
Bhagavad Gita 2.12
A mind chasing pleasure and power cannot settle into stillness.
Bhagavad Gita 2.44
Before the day pulls you apart, gather yourself in one quiet remembrance.
Bhagavad Gita 2.61
A mind that makes fewer plans for pleasure finds more peace.
Bhagavad Gita 6.24
Honest curiosity about mortality calms more than avoidance.
Bhagavad Gita 8.2
A simple home, a simple flame, a simple prayer: everything is enough.
Bhagavad Gita 9.16
Rest in the presence that fills everything and is lost in nothing.
Bhagavad Gita 2.17
Be like the immovable: let events pass through without moving you.
Bhagavad Gita 2.24
Desires flow in like rivers; inner fullness keeps the shore.
Bhagavad Gita 2.70
After a storm of words, quiet makes room for guidance.
Bhagavad Gita 2.9
You can differ about the nature of life and still choose steadiness.
Bhagavad Gita 2.26
Don't spend your heart arguing with what cannot be otherwise.
Bhagavad Gita 2.27
Make peace with what is certain, so you can be present for what is not.
Bhagavad Gita 2.27
Between pleasure and pain there is a calm place; learn to stand there.
Bhagavad Gita 2.45
Be rooted in yourself, and the world's swings pass over you.
Bhagavad Gita 2.45
Dawn comes differently to those who live by an inner light.
Bhagavad Gita 2.69
The aim is a mind that no longer needs rescuing from itself.
Bhagavad Gita 2.72
Seeing the play of senses calmly is a form of freedom.
Bhagavad Gita 5.9
Discipline and understanding together bring peace within reach.
Bhagavad Gita 5.26
Let the highest in you stay level through every season.
Bhagavad Gita 6.7
Keep your mind on what matters, and the rest sorts itself out.
Bhagavad Gita 18.57
Steady, ancient, everywhere: the self is its own foundation.
Bhagavad Gita 2.24
Quiet your wanting, and your intellect can find its footing.
Bhagavad Gita 2.44
Walk without craving, and the road becomes its own reward.
Bhagavad Gita 2.71
Liberation is a state to stand in, not a prize to wait for.
Bhagavad Gita 2.72
Work for the welfare of the world and your own peace grows.
Bhagavad Gita 3.25
Seek the place that does not send you back to the same struggle.
Bhagavad Gita 15.4
Grief drains the senses; rest and guidance restore them.
Bhagavad Gita 2.8
Wisdom does not ask you to settle every philosophy before you find peace.
Bhagavad Gita 2.26
Stillness cannot grow in a mind that is always hungry for more.
Bhagavad Gita 2.44
A steady intellect and a restless appetite cannot share one house.
Bhagavad Gita 2.44
Stay close to calm, clear goodness; it steadies everything else.
Bhagavad Gita 2.45
A clear conscience is lighter than a long list of credits.
Bhagavad Gita 18.6
Desire and anger are the real hurdles; clear them and peace is close.
Bhagavad Gita 5.26
Fear of loss and death softens when the mind rests in the eternal.
Bhagavad Gita 12.7
How would you like your mind to be at the end, and what could you practise today?
Bhagavad Gita 7.30
Which state do you most resist, and what if you simply allowed it?
Bhagavad Gita 14.22
When do you feel most clearly like a witness of your own life?
Bhagavad Gita 13.23

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