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A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

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Trying, Groups, Individual

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If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation.

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Negative, World, Situation

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.143, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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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.

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Peace, Jobs, Order

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.18, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

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Peace, Crazy, Thinking

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.86, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

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Blessed, Action, Good Things

Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.27, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.

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Roots, People, Levels

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail.

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Clothes, Blue, Long

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If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

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Spiritual, Hands, Wish

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.

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People, Simplicity, Way

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Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself lifted above them. Instead of hardship, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy and conviction that I was following God's will. Blessings instead of hardships are showered upon me.

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Blessing, Achievement, Joy

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement

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Jobs, Self, Achievement

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.91, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

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Meaningful, Brother, Night

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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IN THE BEGINNING I undertook my walking not only to contact people, I undertook it as a prayer discipline to keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace... After the first few years the prayer discipline was completely unnecessary, because I had learned to pray without ceasing. I made the contact so thoroughly that into my prayer consciousness I put any condition or person in the world I am concerned about and the rest takes place automatically.

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Prayer, Years, Discipline

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If your life is in harmony, then your life is full and good, but not overcrowded. If it is overcrowded, you are doing more than is right for you, more than is your job to do in the total scheme of things.

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Jobs, Life Is, Harmony

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Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

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Mulling Over, Worry, Useless

Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.13, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period in which I was merged with the whole. No longer was I a seed buried under the ground, but I felt as a flower reaching out effortlessly toward the sun.

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Spiritual, Flower, Firsts

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People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as to whether or not we will pay the price of peace. If we are not willing to pay it, all that we hold dear will be consumed in the flame of war. The darkness in our world today is due to the disintegration of things which are contrary to God's laws. Let us never say hopelessly this is the darkness before a storm; rather let us say with faith this is the darkness before the dawn of the golden age of peace, which we cannot now even imagine. For this, let us hope and work and pray.

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War, Flames, Years

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.110, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

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Children, Silence, Towers

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

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Law, Evil, Overcoming

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Were I to solve problems for others they would remain stagnant; they would never grow. It would be a great injustice to them. My approach is to help with cause rather than effect. When I help others, it is by instilling within them the inspiration to work out problems by themselves. If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

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Inspiration, Helping Others, Men

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.60, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

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Needs, World, Poverty

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

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Peace, Thinking, Junk

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.

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Mean, People, Needs

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.153, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

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Law, Knowing, Despair

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need.

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Peace, Giving, Greed

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.110, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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Born: July 18, 1908
Died: July 7, 1981
Occupation: Activist
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