Quotes from Peace Pilgrim

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

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.

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.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

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.

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

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

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

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.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

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.

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

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.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

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

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.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.

We are all cells in the body of humanity

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

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Only insofar as we remain in harmony with divine law - do good things come to us