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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.

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Inner Peace Is Found

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

When I Started Out On My Pilgrimage, I Was Using Walking For Two Purposes At That Time. One Was To Contact People, And I Still Use It For That Purpose Today. But The Other Was As A Prayer Discipline. To Keep Me Concentrated On My Prayer For Peace. And After A Few Years I Discovered Something. I Discovered That I No Longer Needed The Prayer Discipline. I Pray Without Ceasing Now. My Personal Prayer Is: Make Me An Instrument Through Which Only Truth Can Speak.

We Must Walk According To The Highest Light We Have, Encountering Lovingly Those Who Are Out Of Harmony, And Trying To Inspire Them Toward A Better Way. Whenever You Bring Harmony Into Any Unpeaceful Situation, You Contribute To The Cause Of Peace. When You Do Something For World Peace, Peace Among Groups, Peace Among Individuals, Or Your Own Inner Peace, You Improve The Total Peace Picture.

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.

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.

I Sleep Equally Well In A Soft Bed Or On The Grass Beside The Road. If I Am Given Food And Shelter, Fine. If Not, I'm Just As Happy. Many Times I Am Given Shelter By Total Strangers. When Hospitality Is Not Available There Are Always Bus Depots, Railroad Stations And All Night Truck Stops.... When No Shelter Is Available To Me, I Sleep In The Fields Or By The Side Of The Road With God To Guard Me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Had Created Sufficient Age When I Started Out January 1, 1953, And I Said, That's Enough. From That Time On I Thought Of Myself As Being Ageless And In Radiant Health, And I Am. I Haven't Gotten Younger, But I See No Point In Getting Younger. I Can Get Along Just Fine As I Am, And If You Have Learned The Lessons Of The Seasons Of Life Before, You Really Have No Wish To Return To A Prior Season Of Life.

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

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.

When You Have Done The Spiritual Growing Up You Realize That Every Human Being Is Of Equal Importance, Has Work To Do In This World, And Has Equal Potential. We Are In Many Varied Stages Of Growth; This Is True Because We Have Free Will. You Have Free Will As To Whether You Will Finish The Mental And Emotional Growing Up. Many Choose Not To.

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.

Many Common Problems Are Caused By Wrong Attitudes. People See Themselves As The Center Of The Universe And Judge Everything As It Relates To Them. Naturally You Won't Be Happy That Way. You Can Only Be Happy When You See Things In Proper Perspective: All Human Beings Are Of Equal Importance In God's Sight, And Have A Job To Do In The Divine Plan.

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.

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.

Know That You Are God's Beautiful Child, Always In God's Hands. Accept God... Accept God's Protection... There Is Really No Problem To Fear. Know That You Are Not The Clay Garment. Know That You Are Not The Self-centered Nature Which Governs Your Life Needlessly. Know That You Are The God-centered Nature, The Kingdom Of God Within. The Indwelling Christ. Eternal And Indestructible. Identify With The Real You.

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

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.

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.

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.

Divine Guidance

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.

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.

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.

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

We Limit Ourselves By Thinking Things Can't Be Done. Many Think Peace In The World Is Impossible - Many Think That Inner Peace Cannot Be Attained. It Is The One Who Doesn't Know It Can't Be Done Who Does It!

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.

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.

Unnecessary Possessions Are Unnecessary Burdens.

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 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.

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.

Humanity Can Only Improve As People Improve. When You Have Improved Your Life, You Can Inspire Those Around You To Want To Improve Their Lives. Remember That A Few In Harmony With God's Will Are More Powerful Than Multitudes Out Of Harmony.

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

My Mission Is To Help Promote Peace By Helping Others To Find Inner Peace. If I Can Find It, You Can Too. Peace Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

What People Really Suffer From Is Immaturity. Among Mature People War Would Not Be A Problem - It Would Be Impossible.

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.

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.

We Tend To Attract The Things We Fear.

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.

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.

The Ideal Society Has Yet To Be Built - One Which Balances Nicely Collective Well-being And Individual Well-being.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You Are Within God. God Is Within You.

Pure Love Is A Willingness To Give, Without A Thought Of Receiving Anything In Return. Love Can Save The World From Nuclear Destruction. Love God: Turn To God With Receptiveness And Responsiveness. Love Your Fellow Human Beings: Turn To Them With Friendliness And Givingness. Make Yourself Fit To Be Called A Child Of God By Living The Way Of Love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There Is No Greater Block To World Peace Or Inner Peace Than Fear. What We Fear We Tend To Develop An Unreasoning Hatred For, So We Come To Hate And Fear. This Not Only Injures Us Psychologically And Aggravates World Tension, But Through Such Negative Concentration We Tend To Attract The Things We Fear. If We Fear Nothing And Radiate Love, We Can Expect Good Things To Come. How Much This World Needs The Message And Example Of Love And Of Faith!

It Takes Quite A While For The Living To Catch Up With The Believing, But Of Course It Can. As We Live Up To The Highest Light We Have, More Light Is Given.

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.

....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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

My Inner Peace Remains In Spite Of Any Outward Thing. Only Insofar As I Remain In Harmony Can I Draw Others Into Harmony, And So Much More Harmony Is Needed Before The World Can Find Peace.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

People See Themselves As The Center Of The Universe And Judge Everything As It Relates To Them.

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

There Is No Glimpse Of The Light Without Walking The Path. You Can't Get It From Anyone Else, Nor Can You Give It To Anyone. Just Take Whatever Steps Seem Easiest For You, And As You Take A Few Steps It Will Be Easier For You To Take A Few More.

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.

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

Spiritual Truth

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.

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

In Order To Help Usher In The Golden Age We Must See The Good In People. We Must Know It Is There, No Matter How Deeply It May Be Buried. Yes, Apathy Is There And Selfishness Is There - But Good Is There Also. It Is Not Through Judgment That The Good Can Be Reached, But Through Love And Faith.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The World Is Like A Mirror; If You Smile At It, It Smiles At You. I Love To Smile, And So In General, I Definitely Receive Smiles In Return.

One Little Person, Giving All Of Her Time To Peace, Makes News. Many People, Giving Some Of Their Time, Can Make History.

We Worship God, But Have No Faith In The Workings Of God's Laws Of Love. The World Awaits The Living Of The Law Of Love, Which Will Reach The Divine Within All Human Beings And Transform Them.

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

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

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.

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!

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 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.

Some People Seem To Think That My Life Dedicated To Simplicity And Service Is Austere And Joyless, But They Do Not Know The Freedom Of Simplicity. I Am Thankful To God Every Moment Of My Life For The Great Riches That Have Been Showered Upon Me. My Life Is Full And Good But Never Overcrowded. If Life Is Overcrowded Then You Are Doing More Than Is Required For You To Do.

Thankful To God

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.

World Peace Will Never Be Stable Until Enough Of Us Find Inner Peace To Stabilize It

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?

The Spiritual Life Is The Real Life; All Else Is Illusion And Deception. Only Those Who Are Attached To God Alone Are Truly Free. Only Those Who Live Up To The Highest Light Live In Harmony. All Who Act Upon Their Highest Motivations Become A Power For Good. It Is Not Important That Others Be Noticeably Affected: Results Should Never Be Sought Or Desired. Know That Every Right Thing You Do - Every Good Word You Say - Every Positive Thought You Think - Has Good Effect.

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.

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

The Way Of Peace Is The Way Of Love. Love Is The Greatest Power On Earth. It Conquers All 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.

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

You Must Give If You Want To Receive. Let The Center Of Your Being Be One Of Giving, Giving, Giving. You Can't Give Too Much, And You Will Discover You Cannot Give Without Receiving.

The Only Footwear I Need Is An Inexpensive Pair Of Blue Sneakers. They Have Soft Fabric Tops And Soft Rubber-like Soles. I Get Them One Size Too Large So I Can Wiggle My Toes. I Feel As Free As Though I Were Barefoot! And I Can Usually Get 1,500 Miles To A Pair. I Wear A Pair Of Navy Blue Socks.there's A Reason Why I Chose Navy Blue For My Wearing Apparel-it's A Very Practical Color, Doesn't Show Dirt, And The Color Blue Does Represent Peace And Spirituality.

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

When I Began My Pilgrimage I Left The Los Angeles Area Without A Cent, Having Faith That God Would Provide Me With Everything I Needed. Although I Have Never Asked For Anything, God Has Provided Me With Everything Along The Way. Without Ever Asking For Anything I've Been Supplied.

When You Have Found Inner Peace, You Are In Constant Contact With The Source Of Universal Energy And Cannot Be Tired. . . You Have Endless Energy.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

For Light I Go Directly To The Source Of Light, Not To Any Of The Reflections.

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.

Ultimate Peace Begins Within; When We Find Peace Within There Will Be No More Conflict, No More Occasion For War. If This Is The Peace You Seek, Purify Your Body By Sensible Living Habits, Purify Your Mind By Expelling All Negative Thoughts, Purify Your Motives By Casting Out Any Ideas Of Greed Or Self-striving And By Seeking To Serve You Fellow Human Beings, Purify Your Desires By Eliminating All Wishes For Material Possessions Or Self-glorification And By Desiring To Know And Do God's Will For You. Inspire Others To Do Likewise.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Just Concentrate On Thinking And Living And Acting In Harmony With God's Laws And Inspiring Others To Do Likewise.

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

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

Many People Who Say They Have Financial Problems Really Mean That They Want More Than They Need.

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.

Few Find Inner Peace But This Is Not Because They Try And Fail, It Is Because They Do Not Try. . . When Your Life Is Governed By The Divine Nature Instead Of The Self-centered Nature You Have Found Inner Peace.

Just After I Dedicated My Life To Service, I Felt That I Could No Longer Accept More Than I Need While Others In The World Have Less Than They Need. This Moved Me To Bring My Life Down To Need Level. I Thought It Would Be Difficult. I Thought It Would Entail A Great Many Hardships, But I Was Quite Wrong. Instead Of Hardships, I Found A Wonderful Sense Of Peace And Joy, And A Conviction That Unnecessary Possessions Are Only Unnecessary Burdens.

Judging Others Will Avail You Nothing And Injure You Spiritually. Only If You Can Inspire Others To Judge Themselves Will Anything Worthwhile Have Been Accomplished. When You Approach Others In Judgment They Will Be On The Defensive. When You Are Able To Approach Them In A Kindly, Loving Manner Without Judgment They Will Tend To Judge Themselves And Be Transformed.

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.

Humanity Has Only Scratched The Surface Of Its Real Potential.

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

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

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

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 Think You Can't Do Something, You Can't. But If You Think You Can, You May Be Surprised To Discover That You Can.

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

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.

For Those Of You Who Are Seeing The Spiritual Life, I Recommend These Four Daily Practices: Spend Time Alone Each Day In Receptive Silence. When Angry, Or Afflicted With Any Negative Emotion, Take Time To Be Alone With God. (do Not Talk With People Who Are Angry; They Are Irrational And Cannot Be Reasoned With. If You Or They Are Angry, It Is Best To Leave And Pray.) Visualize God's Light Each Day And Send It To Someone Who Needs Help. Exercise The Body, It Is The Temple Of The Soul.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

Prayer Is A Concentration Of Positive Thoughts.

Positive Thoughts

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.

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.

No One Walks So Safely As One Who Walks Humbly And Harmlessly With Great Love And Great Faith. For Such A Person Gets Through To The Good In Others (and There Is Good In Everyone), And Therefore Cannot Be Harmed. This Works Between Individuals, It Works Between Groups And It Would Work Between Nations If Nations Had The Courage To Try It.

Religion Is To Be Used As A Stepping Stone To God But It Must Never Be Used As A Tower To Hold One Aloft From Others. We Are All Cells In The Body Of Humanity. When Anyone Attempts To Isolate Another, They Only Isolate Themselves More.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It Is Through Solving Problems Correctly That We Grow Spiritually. We Are Never Given A Burden Unless We Have The Capacity To Overcome It. If A Great Problem Is Set Before You, This Merely Indicates That You Have The Great Inner Strength To Solve A Great Problem. There Is Never Really Anything To Be Discouraged About, Because Difficulties Are Opportunities For Inner Growth, And The Greater The Difficulty The Greater The Opportunity For Growth.

A Pilgrim Is A Wanderer With Purpose.

We Are All Cells In The Same Body Of Humanity.

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

The Basic Cause Of All Our Difficulties Is Immaturity. That's Why I Talk So Much About Peace Within Ourselves As A Step Toward Peace In Our World. If We Were Mature, War Would Not Be Possible And Peace Would Be Assured. In Our Immaturity We Do Not Know The Laws Of The Universe, And We Think Evil Can Be Overcome By More Evil. One Symptom Of Our Immaturity Is Greed, Making It Difficult For Us To Learn The Simple Lesson Of Sharing.

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

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.

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

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.

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