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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

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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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

How Good It Is To Work In The Invigorating Fresh Air Under The Life-giving Sun Amid The Inspiring Beauty Of Nature. There Are Many Who Recognize This... How Good It Is To Earn You Livelihood By Contributing Constructively To The Society In Which You Live - Everyone Should, Of Course, And In A Healthy Society Everyone Would.

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.

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.

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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

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.

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

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.

Humanity Has Only Scratched The Surface Of Its Real Potential.

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

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.

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

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 Should Be Intensive Research Of All Forms Of Clean Energy - Sun Power, Wind Power, Water Power Including Wave Power. In Some Places Thermal Energy Is Available. I Stayed On A Ranch Which, With Solar Panels And Two Windmills, Provided Its Own Energy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Unnecessary Possessions Are Unnecessary Burdens.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I Walk Until Given Shelter, Fast Until Given Food. I Don't Ask - It's Given Without Asking. Aren't People Good! There's A Spark Of Good In Everybody, No Mater How Deeply It May Be Buried. It's Waiting To Govern Your Life Gloriously.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

All Of Us Can Work For Peace. We Can Work Right Where We Are, Right Within Ourselves, Because The More Peace We Have Within Our Own Lives, The More We Can Reflect Into The Outer Situation.

A Pilgrim Is A Wanderer With Purpose.

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.

Fountain Of Love My Source Is In Thee - Loving Thy Will My Spirit Is Free - Beautiful Day When All Of Us See - The Hope Of The World Is Love!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Shall Remain A Wanderer Until Mankind Has Learned The Way Of Peace.

This Is The Way Of Peace: Overcome Evil With Good, Falsehood With Truth, And Hatred With Love... My Simple Peace Message Is Adequate - Really Just The Message That The Way Of Peace Is The Way Of Love. Love Is The Greatest Power On Earth. It Conquers All Things. One In Harmony With God's Law Of Love Has More Strength Than An Army, For One Need Not Subdue An Adversary; An Adversary Can Be Transformed.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

There Is Great Freedom In Simplicity Of Living.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Are All Cells In The Same Body Of Humanity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You Might Say That Science Operates Pragmatically And Religion By Divine Guidance. If Valid, They Would Reach The Same Conclusions But Science Would Take A Lot Longer.

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Faith Is A Belief In Things That Your Senses Have Not Experienced And Your Mind Does Not Understand, But You Have Touched Them In Other Ways And Have Accepted Them. It Is Easy For One To Speak Of Faith; It Is Another Thing To Live It.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Live According To Your Highest Light And More Light 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Are You A Slave To Your Self-centered Nature Or Does Your Divine Nature Guide Your Life? Do You Kow That Every Moment Of Your Life You're Creating Through Thought? You Create Your Own Inner Condition; You're Helping Create The Conditions Around You.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

....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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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