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Peace Pilgrim
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“I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.”
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“... if you are obedient to the laws which govern this universe, then your life is full and good but not overcrowded. If it is overcrowded, you are doing more than is right for you to do, more than is your job to do in the total scheme of things.”
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“... just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ...”
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“Anything that 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. We are not free.”
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“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.”
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“Anything that you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.”
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“... we tend to attract the things we fear.”
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“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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“We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.”
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“The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.”
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“If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.”
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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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“Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.”
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“... life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.”
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“It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity and by one who practices it.”
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“Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.”
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“Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try.”
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“The ideal society has yet to be built — one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.”
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“It's the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!”
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“We seem always ready to pay the price for war. Almost gladly we give our time and our treasure — our limbs and even our lives — for war. But we expect to get peace for nothing.”
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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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“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.”
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“Remember that no one can hurt you except yourself. If someone does a mean thing to you, that person is hurt.”
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“Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.”
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“You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.”
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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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“I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.”
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“Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.”
Peace Pilgrim, U.S. non-denominational spiritual teacher, mystic, peace activist
(1908 - 1981)
Born: Mildred Lisette Norman.