Peace Pilgrim Quotes
“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
“The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.”
“You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.”
“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.”
“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”
“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.”
“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
“A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.”
“I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.”
“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.”
“People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.”
“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”
“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.”
“We are that which activates the body.”
“I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.”
“Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.”
“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.”
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.”
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them / so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.”
“The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.”
“You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.”
“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
“I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.”
“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”
“Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.”
“Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.”
Peace Pilgrim (July 18, 1908 – July 7, 1981) born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American pacifist, vegetarian, and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season.[1] Starting on January 1, 1953, in Pasadena, California, she adopted the name "Peace Pilgrim" and walked across the United States for 28 years.She had no organizational backing, carried no money, and would not even ask for food or shelter. When she began her pilgrimage she had taken a vow to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food.
It’s been a long time since I have read Peace Pilgrim’s message.