“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.” IfsKnowsMindHumansIdeasWarSelfBodyDesireWishHuman BeingsInspireMaterialsHabitConflictNegativeUltimateFellowsStriveGreedSeekingPossessionYour BodyGods WillOccasionsMotiveSensibleCastingFinding PeaceNegative ThoughtsEliminatingInspire OthersMaterial PossessionsPeace WithinGlorificationSelf Glorification Author:Peace Pilgrim
“If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.” IfsGivingFeelsShouldHas BeensRealHelpingEarthValuesFallCoursesCan DoHabitGiving UpShould HaveDeeperPursuitOccasionsResolveShould Have BeenSinkingAbstinenceImpunityReal Value Author:William Ralph Inge
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.” LifeInspirationalBeliefEffectsHabitOccasionsExcessModerationExhilarating Book:The Summing Up Source: The Summing Up
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.” MenHumansWholeLife IsUnderstandingLosesSimpleEffectsStupidHabitExerciseCreaturesFindingsDifficultyWhole LifeInventionIgnorantOccasionsOperationsPerformingExertionWealth Of Nations Book:The Wealth of Nations (illustrated) Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)