Quotes by Peace Pilgrim

“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.”

“We are that which activates the body.”

“I dont eat junk foods and I dont think junk thoughts.”

“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.”

“A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.”

“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.”

“For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.”

“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”

“My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.”

“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.”

“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”

“We are all cells in the same body of humanity.”

“As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.”

“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.”

“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it”

“You are within God. God is within you.”

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.