Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Peace Pilgrim

Quote by Peace Pilgrim

Work

Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

This book offers a firsthand account of the author's journey, detailing her encounters with people, her insights on peace, and the challenges she faced while advocating for a peaceful world. more

Author

Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim

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. more

You May Also Like

“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.”

NeedsFeelsWellsSpiritualLife IsLevelsStepsWonderfulMaterialsDiscoveryHarmonyPossessionInner PeaceWell BeingPersistentSimplificationMeaninglessness
Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Create image

“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.”

ShouldSometimesShowsProblemBodyRealitySpiritualOpportunityGrowthMaterialsEssenceDifficultyConcentrationSpiritual GrowthThank GodGarmentsTransientMaterial ThingsIndestructibleActivate
Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Create image

“It does not matter what name you attach to it, but your consciousness must ascend to the point through which you view the universe with your God-centered nature. The feeling accompanying this experience is that of complete oneness with the Universal Whole... This God-centered nature is constantly awaiting to govern your life gloriously. You have the free will to either allow it to govern your life, or not to allow it to affect you. The choice is always yours!”

DoeMatterWholeFeelingsChoicesUniverseNamesViewsConsciousnessUniversalOnenessFree Will
Author:Peace Pilgrim
Create image

“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.”

PeopleThinkingI CanStatesCan DoDoorsDivineHigherCallingInner PeaceUndertakingsHigher PowerApatheticDivine NatureLethargic
Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Create image

“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.”

WorldNeedsActionFeltHurtMy OwnSituationReactionsTrickyInactionHurt MeHurting MyselfWrong Actions
Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Create image

“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.”

WorldWayBelieveWarHelpingUseFeelingsUsedNationsLove IsUnitedCommonGroupsPrayingCitizensContraryGods WillCommon SenseUnited NationsLove MyselfWay Of Love
Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Create image