Without knowing yourself, there is no peace. Krishnamurti I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than are governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. It may take some work, however.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. The Christian fight for peace is not to be confused with defeatism. Thomas Merton Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.