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?
About Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim (July 18, 1908 – July 7, 1981), born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season.
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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
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?
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
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.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
You’re in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
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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.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
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.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
You are within God. God is within you.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
I don’t eat junk foods and I don’t think junk thoughts.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Do not suppress it – that would hurt you inside. Do not express it – this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher
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.
American non-denominational spiritual teacher