Quotes from Peace Pilgrim

A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

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.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

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.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

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.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

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.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

We are that which activates the body.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

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.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

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.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good and falsehood with truth and hatred with love.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.