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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.

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Peace Pilgrim

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We Are That Which Activates The Body.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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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.

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!

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.

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.

We Are All Cells In The Same Body Of Humanity.

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.

Unnecessary Possessions Are Unnecessary Burdens.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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.

There Is Within The Hearts Of People A Deep Desire For Peace On Earth, And They Would Speak For Peace If They Were Not Bound By Apathy, By Ignorance, By Fear. It Is The Job Of The Peacemakers To Inspire Them From Their Apathy, To Dispel Their Ignorance With Truth, To Allay Their Fear With Faith That God's Laws Work - And Work For Good.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

We Tend To Attract The Things We Fear.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I've Met A Few People Who Had To Change Their Jobs In Order To Change Their Lives, But I've Met Many More People Who Merely Had To Change Their Motive To Service In Order To Change Their Lives.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

If You Realized How Powerful Your Thoughts Are, You Would Never Think A Negative Thought.

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.

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.

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.

To The World I May Seem Very Poor, Walking Penniless And Wearing Or Carrying In My Pockets My Only Material Possessions, But I Am Really Very Rich In Blessings Which No Amount Of Money Could Buy - Health And Happiness And Inner Peace.

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

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

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

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.

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

If 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.

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

A Pilgrim Is A Wanderer With Purpose.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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