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Peace Pilgrim (born Mildred Norman, July 18, 1908 - July 7, 1981) was an American peace activist renowned for her extraordinary pilgrimage for peace. Beginning in 1952, she walked across the United States nearly continuously for nearly three decades, covering over 25,000 miles to promote peace and nonviolence. A committed vegetarian, she advocated for simple living and authored the book "Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in the Cause of Peace." Her dedication to walking rather than driving, and her message of inner peace as the foundation for world peace, made her a legendary figure in the American peace movement.

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“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.”

Ifs Giving Helping Life Is Courses Peace Secret Effects Be Good Helping Others Inner Peace Motive Secret Life Outgoing

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“I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.”

Way Humanity Peace Mankind Wanderers

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

People Peace Position Approach Resolution Negotiation Disputes Win Win

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“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.”

People Jobs Order Peace Decision Careers Mets Motive

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“A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.”

Purpose Peace Pilgrim Wanderers

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“As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.”

Light Peace Higher Highest

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

Truth Speak Peace Prayer Praying Instruments I Pray

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“Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.”

People Thinking World May Has Beens Said Peace Christianity Practice Crazy Shocked

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“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it”

World Enough Peace Inner Peace Stable Finding Peace Peace Of Soul

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“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.”

People World Way Mean Self Enough Whole Hands Found Causes Peace Findings Losing Inner Peace Stable Self Centered Finding Inner Peace

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“One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.”

People Giving Littles Persons Peace News Historical Making Peace Achieving Peace Pray For Peace

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“You are within God. God is within you.”

God Peace Within You Thank You God

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“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.”

World Way Life Fall Peace Omission

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“We are that which activates the body.”

Body Peace Activate

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“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.”

Problem Law Purpose Peace Changed Harmony Obedience Free Will Disobedience Obedience To God Mulling Over

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“We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.”

Needs Light Action Peace Practice

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“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.”

Trying Self Life Is Found Peace Failing Divine Inner Peace Self Centered Divine Nature

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“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.”

Found Energy Peace Source Universal Tired Constant Inner Peace Endless Contact Universal Energy

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“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.”

Peace Situation

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“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.”

World Needs Giving Stills Peace Resources Greed Abandon Injured

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

War Real Causes Peace Absence Causes Of War

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“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.”

Way Needs Country Government Asks Peace Conflict Research Peaceful Department Other Countries Resolving Conflict

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

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“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.”

Ifs Enough Care Peace Too Much Simplicity Possession Burden Take Care Unnecessary Great Freedom

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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.”

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

Hate Peace Hatred Hated Old Saying

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

Inspirational Lost Speak Peace Tongue Wounds Enviromental Mulling Over

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

Thinking Peace Diets Junk Junk Food

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

Peace Feet Height Lofty Feet On The Ground

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“My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.”

Peace Divine Awakening Divine Nature

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

People Universe Peace Judging Relate Center Of The Universe

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

States God Peace Awareness Praying Constant Oneness Transcendentalism

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

Spiritual Peace Sides Research Mulling Over

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“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.”

Causes Peace Hurt Surroundings Ripple Being Hurt Anger And Hurt

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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Way Giving Littles Persons Helping Speak Peace Inspire Praying News Mass Harmony Manifestation Dedicated Inspire Others Pray For Peace

Author:Peace Pilgrim

About the Author

Born: July 18, 1908
Died: July 7, 1981
Known for: Activist
Quotes: 271

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