Background Image

...

I Believe It Is Quite Possible For Us To Obtain An Outer Peace At The Present Time. Historically Speaking, When Human Beings Are Faced With The Choice Between Destruction And Change, They Are Apt To Choose Change, And It's About The Only Thing That Will Make Them Choose Change. So We Have The Possibility At The Present Time To Take A Different Direction In The World - The Possibility Exists!

-Peace Pilgrim

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

I Believe It Is

Peace Pilgrim

...

I Believe It Is Quite Possible For Us To Obtain An Outer Peace At The Present Time. Historically Speaking, When Human Beings Are Faced With The Choice Between Destruction And Change, They Are Apt To Choose Change, And It's About The Only Thing That Will Make Them Choose Change. So We Have The Possibility At The Present Time To Take A Different Direction In The World - The Possibility Exists!

Views: 3

Topic

More From Peace Pilgrim

Your Lower Self Sees You As The Center Of The Universe- Your Higher Self Sees You As A Cell In The Body Of Humanity.

I Don't Eat Junk Foods And I Don't Think Junk Thoughts.

As I Accepted The Change Of The Golden Hair Of My Childhood To The Reddish-brown Hair Of My Youth Without Regret, So I Also Accept My Silver Hair-and I Am Ready To Accept The Time When My Hair And The Rest Of My Clay Garment Returns To The Dust From Which It Came, While My Spirit Goes On To Freer Living. It Is The Season For My Hair To Be Silver, And Each Season Has Its Lessons To Teach. Each Season Of Life Is Wonderful If You Have Learned The Lessons Of The Season Before. It Is Only When You Go On With Lessons Unlearned That You Wish For A Return.

Think About All The Good Things Of Your Life. Never Think About Your Difficulties. Forget Yourself, And Concentrate On Being Of Service As Much As You Can In This World, And Then, Having Lost Your Lower Self In A Cause Greater Than Yourself, You Will Find Your Higher Self: Your Real Self.

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.

If Only You Could See The Whole Picture, If You Knew The Whole Story, You Would Realize That No Problem Ever Comes To You That Does Not Have A Purpose In Your Life, That Cannot Contribute To Your Inner Growth.

I Believe It Is Quite Possible For Us To Obtain An Outer Peace At The Present Time. Historically Speaking, When Human Beings Are Faced With The Choice Between Destruction And Change, They Are Apt To Choose Change, And It's About The Only Thing That Will Make Them Choose Change. So We Have The Possibility At The Present Time To Take A Different Direction In The World - The Possibility Exists!

If You Recognize That All Of Your Inner Hurts Are Caused By Your Own Wrong Actions Or Your Own Wrong Reactions Or Your Own Wrong Inaction, Then You Will Stop Hurting Yourself.

There Is Great Freedom In Simplicity Of Living.

Spiritual Truth Should Never Be Sold - Those Who Sell It Injure Themselves Spiritually.

Spiritual Truth

Visualize A Golden Light Within You And Spread It Out. First To Those About You - Your Circle Of Friends And Relatives - And Then Gradually To The World. Keep On Visualizing God's Golden Light Surrounding Our Earth.

The Valid Research For The Future Is On The Inner Side, On The Spiritual Side.

Of Course, I Love Everyone I Meet. How Could I Fail To! Within Everyone Is The Spark Of God. I Am Not Concerned With Racial Or Ethnic Background Or The Color Of One's Skin; All People Look To Me Like Shining Lights! I See In All Creatures The Reflections Of God. All People Are My Kinfolk - People To Me Are Beautiful!

That Which Is Received From Without Can Be Compared With Knowledge. It Leads To Believing, Which Is Seldom Strong Enough To Motivate To Action. That Which Is Confirmed From Within After It Is Contacted From Without, Or That Which Is Directly Perceived From Within (which Is My Way) Can Be Compared With Wisdom. It Leads To A Knowing, And Action Goes Right Along With It.

Then There Is The Way That Was Taught Two Thousand Years Ago - Of Overcoming Evil With Good, Which Is My Way, The Way Jesus Taught. Never Loose Faith: God's Way Is Bound To Prevail In The End.

I Would Like To Emphasize Again That Right Prayer Leads To Right Action, That Faith Without Works Is Dead. An Excellent Way To Put Thoughts Into Action Is To Write A Letter For Peace.

Believing That War Is Contrary To The Will Of God And To Common Sense, And Feeling That The Way Of Peace Is The Way Of Love, I Shall Work For Peace By Using The Way Of Love Myself, By Helping Any Group I Am Part Of To Use It, By Helping The Nation Of Which I Am A Citizen To Use It, By Helping The United Nations To Use It, And By Praying That The Way Of Love Be Used All Over The World.

I Recognized That There Are Some Well-known, Little Understood, And Seldom Practiced Laws That We Must Live By If We Wish To Find Peace Within Or Without. Included Are The Laws That Evil Can Only Be Overcome By Good; That Only Good Means Can Attain A Good End; That Those Who Do Unloving Things Hurt Themselves Spiritually.

Unnecessary Possessions Are Unnecessary Burdens.

If We Fear Nothing And Radiate Love, We Can Expect Good Things To Come.

Although Others May Feel Sorry For You, Never Feel Sorry For Yourself: It Has A Deadly Effect On Spiritual Well-being. Recognize All Problems, No Matter How Difficult, As Opportunities For Spiritual Growth, And Make The Most Of These Opportunities.

Truth Is The Pearl Without Price. One Cannot Obtain Truth By Buying It-all You Can Do Is To Strive For Spiritual Truth And When One Is Ready, It Will Be Given Freely. Nor Should Spiritual Truth Be Sold, Lest The Seller Be Injured Spiritually. You Lose Any Spiritual Contact The Moment You Commercialize It. Those Who Have The Truth Would Not Be Packaging And Selling It, So Anyone Who Is Selling It, Really Does Not Possess It.

Life Is Like A Mirror. Smile At It And It Smiles Back At You.

If You Do Not Yet Know Where You Fit, I Suggest You Try Seeking It In Receptive Silence. I Used To Walk Amid The Beauties Of Nature, Just Receptive And Silent, And Wonderful Insights Would Come To Me.

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.

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... There Was A Time When I Thought It Was A Nuisance To Be Confronted With A Problem. I Tried To Get Rid Of It. I Tried To Get Somebody Else To Solve It For Me. But That Was A Long Time Ago. It Was A Great Day In My Life When I Discovered The Wonderful Purpose Of Problems. Yes, They Have A Wonderful Purpose.

Almost All Fear Is Fear Of The Unknown. Therefore, What's The Remedy? To Become Acquainted With The Things You Fear.

Fear Of The Unknown

Before The Tongue Can Speak, It Must Have Lost The Power To Wound.

Looking Through The Eyes Of The Divine Nature You See The Essence Within The Manifestation, The Creator Within The Creation, And It Is A Wonderful, Wonderful World!

When You Find Peace Within Yourself, You Become The Kind Of Person Who Can Live At Peace With Others. Inner Peace Is Not Found By Staying On The Surface Of Life, Or By Attempting To Escape From Life Through Any Means. Inner Peace Is Found By Facing Life Squarely, Solving Its Problems, And Delving As Far Beneath Its Surface As Possible To Discover Its Verities And Realities.

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.

Inner Peace Is Found By Facing Life Squarely, Solving Its Problems, And Delving As Far Beneath Its Surface As Possible To Discover Its Verities And Realities.

You Have Much More Power When You Are Working For The Right Thing Than When You Are Working Against The Wrong Thing. And, Of Course, If The Right Thing Is Established Wrong Things Will Fade Away Of Their Own Accord.

Humanity Has Only Scratched The Surface Of Its Real Potential.

The Darkness That We See In Our World Today Is Due To The Disintegration Of Things Out Of Harmony With God's Laws. The Basic Conflict Is Not Between Nations, It Is Between Two Opposing Beliefs. The First Is That Evil Can Be Overcome By More Evil, That The End Justifies The Means. This Belief Is Very Prevalent In Our World Today. It Is The War Way. It Is The Official Position Of Every Major Nation.

Any Praise I Receive Does Not Change Me, For I Pass It Right Along To God. I Walk Because God Gives Me Strength To Walk, I Live Because God Gives Me The Supply To Live, I Speak Because God Gives Me The Words To Speak. All I Did Was To Surrender My Will To God's Will. My Entire Life Has Prepared Me For This Undertaking. This Is My Calling. This Is My Vocation. This Is What I Must Be Doing. I Could Not Be Happy Doing Anything Else.

You Can Find God If You Will Only Seek - By Obeying Divine Laws, By Loving People, By Relinquishing Self-will, Attachments, Negative Thoughts And Feelings. And When You Find God It Will Be In Stillness. You Will Find God Within.

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.

I Am Never Lonely Or Discouraged Or Tired. When You Live In Constant Communion With God, You Cannot Be Lonely. When You Perceive The Working Of God's Wonderful Plan And Know That All Good Effort Bears Good Fruit, You Cannot Be Discouraged. When You Have Found Inner Peace, You Are In Contact With The Source Of Universal Energy And Cannot Be Tired.

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.

Constantly Through Thought You Are Creating Your Inner Conditions And Helping To Create The Conditions Around You. So Keep Your Thoughts On The Positive Side, Think About The Best That Could Happen, Think About The Good Things You Want To Happen.

Positive Thinking

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.

Knowing That All Things Contrary To God's Laws Are Transient, Let Us Avoid Despair And Radiate Hope For A Warless World.

It Is Not Through Judgment That The Good In People Can Be Reached, But Through Love And Faith.

My Appointed Work Is To Awaken The Divine Nature That Is Within. This Is My Calling, To Open Doors Of Truth And Make People Think, To Arouse Others From Their Apathetic And Lethargic State, And Get Them To Seek Out For Themselves The Inner Peace Which Dwells Within. This Is The Extent Of My Undertaking, I Can Do No More. The Rest I Leave To A Higher Power.

Difficulties With Material Things Often Come To Remind Us That Our Concentration Should Be On Spiritual Things Instead Of Material Things. Sometimes Difficulties Of The Body Come To Show That The Body Is Just A Transient Garment, And That The Reality Is The Indestructible Essence Which Activates The Body. But When We Can Say, 'thank God For Problems Which Are Sent For Our Spiritual Growth.' They Are No Longer Problems. They Then Become Opportunities.

As I Lived Up To The Highest Light I Had, Higher And Higher Light Came To Me.

I Deal With Spiritual Truth Which Should Never Be Sold And Need Never Be Bought. When You Are Ready It Will Be Given.

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.

Peace And Freedom! These Things Shall Be! How Soon These Things Shall Be - Whether Now Or Whether After Great Destruction And New Beginnings And Eons Of Time - Is Up To Us!

The Simplified Life Is A Sanctified Life, Much More Calm, Much Less Strife. Oh, What Wondrous Truths Are Unveiled- Projects Succeed Which Had Previously Failed. Oh, How Beautiful Life Can Be, Beautiful Simplicity.

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.

Just As You Cannot Receive Without Giving, So Neither Can You Give Without Receiving.

You Are Within God. God Is Within You.

If We Could Put Material Things Into Their Proper Place, And Use Them Without Being Attached To Them, How Much Freer We Would Be. Then We Wouldn't Burden Ourselves With Things We Don't Need. If We Could Only Realize That We Are All Cells In The Same Body Of Humanity - Then We Would Think Of Having Enough For All, Not Too Much For Some And Too Little For Others.

There Is A Spark Of Good In Everybody, No Matter How Deeply It May Be Buried. It Is The Real You.

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.

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.

When We Attempt To Isolate Another We Only Isolate Ourselves. We Are All God's Children And There Are No Favorites. God Is Revealed To All Who Seek; God Speaks To All Who Will Listen. Be Still And Know God.

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. For Me This Began With A Discovery Of The Meaninglessness Of Possessions Beyond My Actual And Immediate Needs. As Soon As I Had Brought Myself Down To Need Level, I Began To Feel A Wonderful Harmony In My Life Between Inner And Outer Well-being, Between Spiritual And Material Well-being.

All Who Act Upon Their Highest Motivations Become A Power For Good. Know That Every Right Thing You Do - Every Good Word You Say - Every Positive Thought You Think - Has A Good Effect.

Positive Thoughts

My Appointed Work Is To Awaken The Divine Nature That Is Within.

A Few Really Dedicated People Can Offset The Ill Effects Of Masses Of Out-of-harmony People, So We Who Work For Peace Must Not Falter.

It Is My Mission As A Pilgrim To Act As A Messenger Expressing Spiritual Truths. It Is A Task Which I Accept Joyfully, And I Desire Nothing In Return, Neither Praise Or Glory, Nor The Glitter Of Silver And Gold. I Simply Rejoice To Be Able To Follow The Whisperings Of A Higher Will.

How Often Are You Worrying About The Present Moment? The Present Moment Is Usually All Right. If You're Worrying, You're Either Agonizing Over The Past Which You Should Have Forgotten Long Ago, Or Else You're Apprehensive Over The Future Which Hasn't Even Come Yet. We Tend To Skip Over The Present Moment Which Is The Only Moment God Gives Any Of Us To Live.

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.

I No Longer Become Angry. I Not Only Do Not Say Angry Words, I Do Not Even Think Angry Thoughts! If Someone Does An Unkind Thing To Me I Feel Only Compassion Instead Of Resentment. Even Upon Those Who Cause Suffering I Look With Deep Compassion, Knowing The Harvest Of Sorrow That Lies In Store For Them. If There Were Those Who Hated Me, I Would Love Them In Return, Knowing That Hatred Can Only Be Overcome By Love, And Knowing That There Is Good In All Human Beings Which Can Be Reached By A Loving Approach.

People Have Found Inner Peace By Losing Themselves In A Cause Larger Than Themselves. Finding Inner Peace Means Coming From The Self-centered Life Into The Life Centered.

It's The One Who Doesn't Know It Can't Be Done Who Does It!

The Fear Habit Is Very Detrimental Because You Attract The Things You Fear. If We Have Any Fear We Need To Get Rid Of It.

A Few Really Dedicated People Can Offset The Masses Of Out Of Harmony People, So We Who Work For Peace Must Not Falter, We Must Continue To Pray For Peace And To Act For Peace In Whatever Way We Can. We Must Continue To Speak For Peace And To Live The Way Of Peace; To Inspire Others, We Must Continue To Think Of Peace And Know That Peace Is Possible. What We Dwell Upon We Help Bring To Manifestation. One Little Person Giving All Of Her Time To Peace Makes News. Many People Giving Some Of Their Time Can Make History.

I Have Faith That God Will Care For Me, And God Does Provide My Needs. I Don't In Any Way Feel Insecure Because I Don't Know Where I Will Sleep At Night, Where Or When I Will Eat Next. When You Have Spiritual Security, You Have No More Feeling Of Need For Material Security.

Live According To Your Highest Light And More Light Will Be Given.

There Is A Magic Formula For Resolving Conflicts. It Is This: Have As Your Objective The Resolving Of The Conflict, Not The Gaining Of Advantage. There Is A Magic Formula For Avoiding Conflicts. It Is This: Be Concerned That You Do Not Offend, Not That You Are Not Offended.

I Considered Myself Liberated Long Before It Became The Fashion. First I Liberated Myself From Debilitating Habits, And Went On To Free Myself Of Combative, Aggressive Thoughts. I Have Also Cast Aside Any Unnecessary Possessions. This, I Feel, Is True Liberation.

When You Perceive That Problems Serve A Purpose In Your Life, You Will Recognize That Problems Are Opportunities In Disguise.

The Best Way To Come To Terms With Anything That Is Out Of Harmony Is Never To Fear It - That Gives It Power. Bring Good Influences To Bear Upon It; Make Yourself A Good Example.

We Must Be Able To Appreciate And Enjoy The Places Where We Tarry And Yet Pass On Without Anguish When We Are Called Elsewhere. In Our Spiritual Development We Are Often Required To Pull Up Roots Many Times And To Close Many Chapters In Our Lives Until We Are No Longer Attached To Any Material Thing And Can Love All People Without Any Attachment To Them.

You Must Learn To Forgive Yourself As Easily As You Forgive Others. And Then Take A Further Step And Use All That Energy That You Used In Condemning Yourself For Improving Yourself. After That I Really Started To Get Somewhere - Because There's Only One Person You Can Change And That's Yourself. After You Have Changed Yourself, You Might Be Able To Inspire Others To Look For Change.

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.

We Should Never Underestimate The Great Power Of The Way Of Love Which Reaches That Spark Of Good In The Other Person, Always There No Matter How Deeply Buried, And The Person Is Disarmed.

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.

Remember That No One Can Hurt You Except Yourself. If Someone Does A Mean Thing To You, That Person Is Hurt. You Are Not Really Hurt Unless You Become Embittered, Or Unless You Become Angry And Perhaps Do A Mean Thing In Return.

We Can Work On Inner Peace And World Peace At The Same Time. On One Hand, People Have Found Inner Peace By Losing Themselves In A Cause Larger Than Themselves, Like The Cause Of World Peace, Because Finding Inner Peace Means Coming From The Self-centered Life Into The Life Centered In The Good Of The Whole. On The Other Hand, One Of The Ways Of Working For World Peace Is To Work For More Inner Peace, Because World Peace Will Never Be Stable Until Enough Of Us Find Inner Peace To Stabilize It.

Do You Know God? Do You Know There Is A Power Greater Than Ourselves Which Manifests Itself Within Us As Well As Everywhere Else In The Universe? This I Call God. Do You Know What It Is To Know God, To Have God's Constant Guidance, A Constant Awareness Of God's Presence? To Know God Is To Reflect Love Toward All People And All Creations. To Know God Is To Feel Peace Within - A Calmness, A Serenity, An Unshakeableness Which Enables You To Face Any Situation. To Know God Is To Be So Filled With Joy That It Bubbles Over And Goes Forth To Bless The World.

Most Human Beings Only Scratch The Surface Of Their Real Potential. They Have No Idea What They're Capable Of.

When Love Fills Your Life All Limitations Are Gone. The Medicine This Sick World Needs So Badly Is Love.

Worry Is A Useless Mulling Over Of Things We Cannot Change.

I Learned About Forty Years Ago That Money And Things Wouldn't Make People Happy. And This Has Been Confirmed Many Times. I Have Met Many Millionaires. They Had One Thing In Common. None Of Them Were Happy....i Realize That If You Don't Have Enough You Won't Be Happy. Neither Are You Happy If You Have Too Much. It Is Those Who Have Enough But Not Too Much Who Are The Happiest.

I Also Made Two Very Important Discoveries As Time Went On. In The First Place, I Discovered That Making Money Was Easy. I Had Been Led To Believe That Money And Possessions Would Insure Me A Life Of Happiness And Peace Of Mind. So That Was The Path I Pursued. In The Second Place, I Discovered That Making Money And Spending It Foolishly Was Completely Meaningless. I Knew That This Was Not What I Was Here For, But At That Time I Didn't Know Exactly What I Was Here For.

The Pain And Suffering That Comes To Us Has A Purpose In Our Lives-it Is Trying To Teach Us Something. We Should Look For Its Lesson.

Concealed In Every New Situation We Face Is A Spiritual Lesson To Be Learned And A Spiritual Blessing For Us If We Learn That Lesson. It Is Good To Be Tested. We Grow And Learn Through Passing Tests. I Look Upon All My Tests As Good Experiences. Before I Was Tested, I Believed I Would Act In A Loving Or Non-fearing Way. After I Was Tested, I Knew! Every Test Turned Out To Be An Uplifting Experience. And It Is Not Important That The Outcome Be According To Our Wishes.

Never Think Of Any Right Effort As Being Fruitless. All Right Effort Bears Fruit, Whether We See The Results Or Not.

If You Did Not Face Problems You Would Just Drift Through Life. It Is Through Solving Problems In Accordance With The Highest Light We Have That Inner Growth Is Attained.

Never Underestimate The Power Of A Loosely Knit Group Working For A Good Cause. All Of Us Who Work For Peace Together, All Of Us Who Pray For Peace Together, Are A Small Minority, But A Powerful Spiritual Fellowship. Our Power Is Beyond Our Numbers.

If You Are Harboring The Slightest Bitterness Toward Anyone, Or Any Unkind Thoughts Of Any Sort Whatever, You Must Get Rid Of Them Quickly. They Are Not Hurting Anyone But You. It Isn't Enough Just To Do Right Things And Say Right Things - You Must Also Think Right Things Before Your Life Can Come Into Harmony.

When You Make People Angry, They Act In Accordance With Their Baser Instincts, Often Violently And Irrationally. When You Inspire People, They Act In Accordance With Their Higher Instincts, Sensibly And Rationally. Also, Anger Is Transient, Whereas Inspiration Sometimes Has A Life-long Effect.

I Define Democracy As Control By The People. Slaves Are Those Who Allow Others To Control Their Lives. Insofar As People Succeed In Solving Their Problems Fairly And Efficiently At A Grassroots Level, They Retain Control Over Their Lives. Insofar As They Delegate Their Problem Solving To A Higher Authority, They Lose Control Over Their Lives.

We Lump Together All Things That Are Beyond The Capacity Of All Of Us Collectively To Understand-and One Name We Give To All Those Things Together Is God. Therefore, God Is The Creative Force, The Sustaining Power, That Which Motivates Toward Constant Change, The Overall Intelligence Which Governs The Universe By Physical And Spiritual Law, Truth, Love, Goodness, Kindness, Beauty, The Ever-present, All-pervading Essence Or Spirit, Which Binds Everything In The Universe Together And Gives To Everything In The Universe.

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.

Intellectually I Touched God Many Times As Truth And Emotionally I Touched God As Love. I Touched God As Goodness. I Touched God As Kindness. It Came To Me That God Is A Creative Force, A Motivating Power, An Over-all Intelligence, An Ever-present, All Pervading Spirit - Which Binds Everything In The Universe Together And Gives Life To Everything. That Brought God Close. I Could Not Be Where God Is Not. You Are Within God. God Is Within You.

When You Do Something For World Peace, Peace Among Groups, Peace Among Individuals, Or Your Own Inner Peace, You Improve The Total Peace Picture.

Ultimate Peace Begins Within; When We Find Peace Within There Will Be No More Conflict, Nor More Occasion For War.

There Is Something To That Old Saying That Hate Injures The Hater, Not The Hated.

Prayer Is A Concentration Of Positive Thoughts.

Positive Thoughts

If Democracy Is Control By The People, As It Is Supposed To Be, It Is The Right Form Of Government. I Believe In A Complete Democracy - Individual, Political, Social, Economic. If We Really Had That, Which We Don't Now, It Would Be In Harmony With Divine Purpose.

Implanting Spiritual Ideas In Children Is Very Important. Many People Live Their Entire Lives According To The Concepts That Are Implanted In Them In Childhood. When Children Learn They Will Get The Most Attention And Love Through Doing Constructive Things, They Will Tend To Stop Doing Destructive Things. Most Important Of All, Remember That Children Learn Through Example. No Matter What You Say It Is What You Do That Will Have An Influence On Them.

Attention And Love

Live In The Present. Do The Things That Need To Be Done. Do All The Good You Can Each Day. The Future Will Unfold

Real Peace Is More Than The Absence Of War; It Is An Absence Of The Causes Of War.

We Are All Cells In The Body Of Humanity - All Of Us, All Over The World. Each One Has A Contribution To Make, And Will Know From Within What This Contribution Is.

What I Walk On Is Not The Energy Of Youth, It Is A Better Energy. I Walk On The Endless Energy Of Inner Peace That Never Runs Out! When You Become A Channel Through Which God Works There Are No More Limitations, Because God Does The Work Through You: You Are The Instrument - And What God Can Do Is Unlimited. When You Are Working For God You Do Not Find Yourself Striving And Straining. You Find Yourself Calm, Serene And Unhurried.

Finding Yourself

The Motive, If You Are To Find Inner Peace, Must Be An Outgoing Motive. Service, Of Course-service. Giving, Not Getting. Your Motive Must Be Good If Your Work Is To Have Good Effect. The Secret Of Life Is Being Of Service.

All Right Prayer Has Good Effect, But If You Give Your Whole Life To The Prayer You Multiply Its Power... No One Really Knows The Full Power Of Prayer. Of Course, There Is A Relationship Between Prayer And Action. Receptive Prayer Result In An Inner Receiving, Which Motivates To Right Action.

I Have Chosen The Positive Approach - Instead Of Stressing The Bad Things Which I Am Against, I Stress The Good Things Which I Am For.

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.

A Pilgrim Is A Wanderer With A Purpose. A Pilgrimage Can Be To A Place - That's The Best Known Kind - But It Can Also Be For A Thing. Mine Is For Peace, And That Is Why I Am A Peace Pilgrim.

If You Realize That Those Who Do Mean Things Are Psychologically Ill, Your Feelings Of Anger Will Turn To Feelings Of Pity.

At A Simple Level, Good Is That Which Helps People-evil Is That Which Hurts People. At A Higher Level, Good Is That Which Is In Harmony With Divine Purpose-evil Is That Which Is Out Of Harmony With Divine Purpose.

Walk With Me, But Don't Follow Me Blindly. Hold Fast To The Truth, Not To My Garments. My Body Is Merely A Clay Structure; Today It Is Here, Tomorrow It Shall Be Gone. If You Attach Yourself To Me Today, What Are You Going To Do Tomorrow When I Am Not With You? Attach Yourself To God, Attach Yourself To Humanity, Only Then Will You Be Closer To Me.

Keep Your Feet On The Ground And Your Thoughts At Lofty Heights.

Blessed Are They Who Translate Every Good Thing They Know Into Action - Even Higher Truths Shall Be Revealed To Them.

I Am Constantly Thankful. The World Is So Beautiful, I Am Thankful. I Have Endless Energy, I Am Thankful. I Am Plugged Into The Source Of Universal Supply, I Am Thankful. I Am Plugged Into The Source Of Universal Truth, I Am Thankful. I Have This Constant Feeling Of Thankfulness, Which Is A Prayer.

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.

When We Hear A Prediction Of Some Disaster We Need To Throw The Entire Weight Of Our Positive Thought In The Opposite Direction!

We Have All The Light We Need, We Just Need To Put It In Practice.

I Talk To Groups Studying The Most Advanced Spiritual Teachings And Sometimes These People Wonder Why Nothing Is Happening In Their Lives. Their Motive Is The Attainment Of Inner Peace For Themselves - Which Of Course Is A Selfish Motive. You Will Not Find It With This Motive. The Motive, If You Are To Find Inner Peace, Must Be An Outgoing Motive. Service, Of Course, Service. Giving, Not Getting. Your Motive Must Be Good If Your Work Is To Have Good Effect. The Secret Of Life Is Being Of Service.

I Always Have A Feeling Of Awe And Wonder At What God Can Do - Using Me As An Instrument. I Believe That Anyone Who Is Fully Surrendered To God's Will Can Be Used Gloriously - And Will Really Know Some Things - And Will Probably Be Called Self-righteous. You're Called Self-righteous If You Are Self-centered Enough To Think You Know Everything - But You May Also Be Called Self-righteous By The Immature If You Are God-centered Enough To Really Know Some Things.

It Isn't Enough Just To Do Right Things And Say Right Things, You Must Also Think Right Things Before Your Life Can Come Into Harmony.

After You Have Found Inner Peace You Have Endless Energy - The More You Give, The More You Receive. After You Have Found Your Calling, You Work Easily And Joyously. You Never Get Tired.

Religion Is Not An End In Itself. One's Union With God Is The Ultimate Goal. There Are So Many Religions Because Immature People Tend To Emphasize Trivial Differences Instead Of Important Likenesses. Differences Between Faiths Lie In Creeds And Rituals Rather Than In Religious Principles.

I Feel A Complete Protection On My Pilgrimage. God Is My Shield. There Are No Accidents In The Divine Plan Nor Does God Leave Us Unattended. No One Walks So Safely As Those Who Walk Humbly And Harmlessly With Great Love And Great Faith.

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.

The Path Of The Seeker Is Full Of Pitfalls And Temptations, And The Seeker Must Walk It Alone With God. I Would Recommend That You Keep Your Feet On The Ground And Your Thoughts At Lofty Heights, So That You May Attract Only Good. Concentrate On Giving So That You May Open Yourself To Receiving; Concentrate On Living According To The Light You Have So That You May Open Yourself To More Light; Get As Much Light As Possible Through The Inner Way.

If You Realized How Powerful Your Thoughts Are, You Would Never Think A Defeatist Or Negative Thought. Since We Create Through Thought, We Need To Concentrate Very Strongly On Positive Thoughts. If You Think You Can't Do Something, You Can't. But If You Think You Can, You May Be Surprised To Discover That You Can. It Is Important That Our Thoughts Be Constantly For The Best That Could Happen In A Situation - For The Good Things We Would Like To See Happen.

The Simplification Of Life Is One Of The Steps To Inner Peace.

There Was A Time - When I Attained Inner Peace - When I Died, Utterly Died To Myself. I Have Since Renounced My Previous Identity. I Can See Not Reason To Dwell Upon My Past, It Is Dead And Should Not Be Resurrected. Don't Inquire Of Me - Ask Me About My Message. It Is Not Important To Remember The Messenger, Just Remember The Message.

When Societies Are Out Of Harmony, Problems Develop Within The Society - Collective Problems. Their Purpose Is To Push The Whole Society Toward Harmony.

It's Very Important To Get Your Desires Centered So You Will Desire Only To Do God's Will For You. You Can Come To The Point Of Oneness Of Desire, Just To Know And Do Your Part In The Life Pattern. When You Think About It, Is There Anything Else As Really Important To Desire?

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.

Take Out The Kernel Of Spiritual Truth With Any Faith, And What Is Left Is Dogma.

The Sanctuary Of Peace Dwells Within. Seek It Out And All Things Will Be Added To You. We're Coming Closer And Closer To The Time When Enough Of Us Will Have Found Inner Peace To Affect Our Institutions For The Better. And As Soon As This Happens The Institutions Will In Turn, Through Example, Affect For The Better Those Who Are Still Immature.

People Have Had To Make Up For Their Spiritual Impoverishment By Accumulating Material Things. When Spiritual Blessings Come, Material Blessings Seem Unimportant. As Long As We Desire Material Things This Is All We Receive, And We Remain Spiritually Impoverished.

You Can Visualize God's Light Each Day And Send It To Someone Who Needs Help. Your Divine Nature Must Reach Out And Touch The Divine Nature Of Another. Within You Is The Light Of The World, It Must Be Shared With The World.

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.

In My Life, What I Want And What I Need Are Exactly The Same. Anything In Excess Of Needs Is Burdensome To Me. You Couldn't Give Me Anything I Don't Need. I Am Penniless, But Have Difficulty Remaining So. Several Of My Well Meaning, Well-to-do Friends Have Offered Me Large Sums Of Money, Which I Of Course Refused.

I Don't Eat Junk Foods And I Don't Think Junk Thoughts! Let Me Tell You, Junk Thoughts Can Destroy You Even More Quickly Than Junk Food. Junk Thoughts Are Something To Be Wary Of.

I Do My Work Easily And Joyously. I Feel Beauty All Around Me And I See Beauty In Everyone I Meet, For I See God In Everything. I Recognize My Part In The Life Pattern And I Find Harmony Through Gladly And Joyously Living It. I Recognize My Oneness With All Mankind And My Oneness With God. My Happiness Overflows In Loving And Giving Toward Everyone And Everything.

I Believe That The Means You Use Will Determine The End You Receive.

The Lesson Of The Way Of Love Is That Evil Can Only Be Overcome By Good. We Don't Need To Reach Out And Tear Down The Things That Are Evil Because Nothing Which Is Contrary To The Law Of Love Can Endure.

We Spend A Great Deal Of Time Telling God What We Think Should Be Done, And Not Enough Time Waiting In The Stillness For God To Tell Us What To Do.

Meditation Practice

Pure Love Is A Willingness To Give Without A Thought Of Receiving Anything In Return.

I Remember My First Lesson On The Pilgrimage Was The Lesson Of Receiving. I Had Been On The Giving Side For Many Years And I Needed To Learn To Accept As Gracefully As I Had Been Able To Give, In Order To Give The Other Fellow The Joy And Blessing Of Giving. It's So Beautiful When You Live To Give. To Me It's The Only Way To Live Because As You Give You Receive Spiritual Blessings.

No Outward Thing - Nothing, Nobody From Without - Can Hurt Me Inside, Psychologically. I Recognized That I Could Only Be Hurt Psychologically By My Own Wrong Actions, Which I Have Control Over; By My Own Wrong Reactions (they Are Tricky, But I Have Control Over Them Too); Or By My Own Inaction In Some Situations, Like The Present World Situation, That Need Action From Me. When I Recognized All This How Free I Felt! And I Just Stopped Hurting Myself.

No One Can Find Inner Peace Except By Working, Not In A Self- Centered Way, But For The Whole Human Family.

Every Good That You Do, Every Good That You Say, Every Good Thought You Think, Vibrates On And On And Never Ceases. The Evil Remains Only Until It Is Overcome By Good, But The Good Remains Forever.

If You Are Not Radiant With Joy And Friendliness, If You Are Not Filled To Overflowing With Love And Goodwill For All Beings And All Creatures And All Creation, One Thing Is Certain: You Do Not Know God!

A Life Without Problems Would Be A Barren Existence, Without The Opportunity For Spiritual Growth.

What We Usually Call Human Evolution Is The Awakening Of The Divine Nature Within Us.

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.

People Sometimes Ask Me If I Do Not Feel Lonely On Holidays. How Can I Feel Lonely When I Live In The Constant Awareness Of God's Presence? I Love And I Enjoy Being With People, But When I Am Alone I Enjoy Being Alone With God.

In My Work I Have Chosen The Positive Approach. I Never Think Of Myself As Protesting Against Something, But Rather As Witnessing For Harmonious Living. Those Who Witness For, Present Solutions. Those Who Witness Against, Usually Do Not - They Dwell On What Is Wrong, Resorting To Judgment And Criticism And Sometimes Even Name-calling. Naturally, The Negative Approach Has A Detrimental Effect On The Person Who Uses It, While The Positive Approach Has A Good Effect

Overcome Evil With Good, Falsehood With Truth, And Hatred With Love. The Message Isn't New, But We Haven't Learned To Live It Yet.

Who Am I? It Matters Not That You Know Who I Am; It Is Of Little Importance. This Clay Garment Is One Of A Penniless Pilgrim Journeying In The Name Of Peace. It Is What You Cannot See That Is So Very Important. I Am One Who Is Propelled By The Power Of Faith; I Bathe In The Light Of Eternal Wisdom; I Am Sustained By The Unending Energy Of The Universe; This Is Who I Really Am.

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.

If You Want To Serve The Universe, The Obvious Place To Begin Is Right Where You Are. That's Where I Began. I Looked At Every Situation I Came Into And Wondered, 'what Can I Do To Be Of Service In This Situation?' Sometimes There Was Nothing I Could Do, But Often There Was - A Helping Hand, A Word Of Cheer, A Pleasant Smile. Then, After I Had Given A Lot, A Most Wonderful Spiritual Receiving Began - Giving Me More To Give.

Just As A Human Soul That Faces Great Difficulties Also Faces Great Opportunities For Spiritual Growth, So A Human Society That Faces Destruction Also Faces The Opportunity To Enter A Period Of Renaissance. I Think That, Barring An Accident, The Wish To Survive Will Keep Us From A Nuclear War.

Life Is A Mixture Of Successes And Failures. May You Be Encouraged By The Successes And Strengthened By The Failures. As Long As You Never Lose Faith In God, You Will Be Victorious Over Any Situation You May Face.

It Does Not Matter What Name You Attach To It, But Your Consciousness Must Ascend To The Point Through Which You View The Universe With Your God-centered Nature. The Feeling Accompanying This Experience Is That Of Complete Oneness With The Universal Whole... This God-centered Nature Is Constantly Awaiting To Govern Your Life Gloriously. You Have The Free Will To Either Allow It To Govern Your Life, Or Not To Allow It To Affect You. The Choice Is Always Yours!

Religion Is Not An End In Itself. One's Union With God Is The Ultimate Goal.

My Desire Is To Strive Toward Perfection; To Be As Much In Harmony With God's Will As Possible; To Live Up To The Highest Light I Have. I'm Still Not Perfect, Of Course, But I Grow Daily... I Am Able To Do Everything I Am Called To Do, And I Do Know What I Need To Know To Do My Part In The Divine Plan. And I Do Experience The Happiness Of Living In Harmony With God's Will For Me.

Do Not Believe In Me Or Any Other Teacher, Rather Trust In Your Own Inner Voice. This Is Your Guide, This Is Your Teacher. Your Teacher Is Within Not Without. Know Yourself, Not Me!

In All The People I Meet - Though Some May Be Governed By The Self-centered Nature And May Not Know Their Potential At All - I See That Divine Spark. And That's What I Concentrate On. All People Look Beautiful To Me; They Look Like Shining Lights To Me. I Always Have The Feeling Of Being Thankful For These Beautiful People Who Walk The Earth With Me.

If You Have A Negative Thought About A World Situation, Dwell Upon The Best That Could Happen In That Situation.

If You Know But Do Not Do, You Are A Very Unhappy Person Indeed.

Now There Is Living To Give Instead Of To Get. As You Concentrate On The Giving, You Discover That Just As You Cannot Receive Without Giving, So Neither Can You Give Without Receiving - Even The Most Wonderful Things Like Health And Happiness And Inner Peace. There Is A Feeling Of Endless Energy, It Just Never Runs Out, It Seems To Be As Endless As Air. You Seem To Be Plugged In To The Source Of Universal Energy.

Collective Problems Must Be Solved By All Of Us, Collectively, And No One Finds Inner Peace Who Avoids Doing His Or Her Share In The Solving Of Collective Problems.

People Allow Themselves To Be Slaves Of Their Bad Habits And Society's Bad Habits - But They Have Free Will, And If They Wish To Be Free They Can.

I Have Never Met Anyone Who Built A Bomb Shelter And Felt Protected By It. I Have Never Met A Modern Military Man Who Did Not Realize That Military Victory Is A Concept Which Became Obsolete With The Coming Of The Nuclear Age, And Most Civilians Realize This Also. Wisdom Demands That We Stop Preparing To Wage A War Which Would Eliminate Mankind - And Start Preparing To Eliminate The Seeds Of War.

Anything You Strive To Hold Captive Will Hold You Captive, And If You Desire Freedom You Must Give Freedom.

If You Realized How Powerful Your Thoughts Are, You Would Never Think A Negative Thought. They Can Be A Powerful Influence For Good When They're On The Positive Side, And They Can And Do Make You Physically Ill When They're On The Negative Side. I Don't Eat Junk Foods And I Don't Think Junk Thoughts! Let Me Tell You, Junk Thoughts Can Destroy You Even More Quickly Than Junk Food. Junk Thoughts Are Something To Be Wary Of.

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?

Life Is A Series Of Tests; But If You Pass Your Tests, You Look Back Upon Them As Good Experiences.

I Would Like To Mention Some Preparations That Were Required Of Me. The First Preparation Is To Take A Right Attitude Toward Life. This Means, Stop Being An Escapist! Stop Being A Surface Liver Who Stays Right In The Froth Of The Surface. There Are Millions Of These People, And They Never Find Anything Really Worthwhile. Be Willing To Face Life Squarely And Get Down Beneath The Surface Of Life Where The Verities And Realities Are To Be Found. That's What We Are Doing Here Now.

We People Of The World Need To Find Ways To Get To Know One Another - For Then We Will Recognize That Our Likenesses Are So Much Greater Than Our Differences, However Great Our Differences May Seem. Every Cell, Every Human Being, Is Of Equal Importance And Has Work To Do In This World

When You Feel The Need For A Spiritual Lift, Try Getting To Bed Early And Get Up Early To Have A Quiet Time At Dawn. Then Carry The Serene 'in Tune' Feeling That Comes To You Into Your Day, No Matter What You May Be Doing.

We Are All Cells In The Same Body Of Humanity.

Let Us Help The Phoenix To Rise From The Ashes; Let Us Help Lay The Foundation For A New Renaissance; Let Us Help To Accelerate The Spiritual Awakening Until It Lifts Us Into The Golden Age Which Would Come.

Those Who Have Overcome Self-will And Become Instruments To Do God's Work Can Accomplish Tasks Which Are Seemingly Impossible, But They Experience No Feeling Of Self Achievement. I Now Know Myself To Be A Part Of The Infinite Cosmos, Not Separate From Other Souls Or God. My Illusory Self Is Dead; The Real Self Controls The Garment Of Clay And Uses It For God's Work.

I Pray Without Ceasing Now. My Personal Prayer Is: Make Me An Instrument Which Only Truth Can Speak.

If You Give Your Life As A Prayer, You Intensify The Prayer Beyond All Measure.

Evil Cannot Be Overcome By More Evil. Evil Can Only Be Overcome By Good. It Is The Lesson Of The Way Of Love.

I Wish That Every Child Could Have Growing Space Because I Think Children Are A Little Like Plants. If They Grow Too Close Together, They Become Thin And Sickly And Never Obtain Maximum Growth. We Need Room To Grow.

I Shall Not Accept More Than I Need While Others In The World Have Less Than They Need.

It Concerns Me When I See A Small Child Watching The Hero Shoot The Villain On Television. It Is Teaching The Small Child To Believe That Shooting People Is Heroic. The Hero Just Did It And It Was Effective. It Was Acceptable And The Hero Was Well Thought Of Afterward. If Enough Of Us Find Inner Peace To Affect The Institution Of Television, The Little Child Will See The Hero Transform The Villain And Bring Him To A Good Life. He'll See The Hero Do Something Significant To Serve Fellow Human Beings. So Little Children Will Get The Idea That If You Want To Be A Hero You Must Help People.

I Am A Deeply Religious Person, But I Belong To No Denomination. I Follow The Spirit Of God's Law, Not The Letter Of The Law. One Can Become So Attached To The Outward Symbols And Structure Of Religion That One Forgets Its Original Intent - To Bring One Closer To God. We Can Only Gain Access To The Kingdom Of God By Realizing It Dwells Within Us As Well As In All Humanity. Know That We Are All Cells In The Ocean Of Infinity, Each Contributing To The Others' Welfare.

Be Willing To Face Life Squarely And Get Down Beneath The Surface Of Life Where The Verities And Realities Are To Be Found.

You Have Endless Energy Only When You Are Working For The Good Of The Whole - You Have To Stop Working For Your Little Selfish Interests. That's The Secret Of It. In This World You Are Given As You Give.

It Is Those Who Have Enough But Not Too Much Who Are The Happiest.

If Only You Could See The Whole Picture, If You Knew The Whole Story, You Would Realize That No Problem Ever Comes To You That Does Not Have A Purpose In Your Life, That Cannot Contribute To Your Inner Growth. When You Perceive This, You Will Recognize That Problems Are Opportunities In Disguise. If You Did Not Face Problems, You Would Just Drift Through Life. It Is Through Solving Problems In Accordance With The Highest Light We Have That Inner Growth Is Attained.

Praying Without Ceasing Is Not Ritualized, Nor Are There Even Words. It Is A Constant State Of Awareness Of Oneness With God.

Trending Author

Washington Irving

Category