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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

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”

Peace Justice Higher Conscience Court Peace And Justice Peace Justice

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.”

Peace Higher Glad Faculty Yield Supremacy

Author:Joseph Cook

“... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.”

War Desire Dies Fighting Passion Peace Behinds Movement Ready Higher Militant Pacifist

Book:Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

Source: Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

“While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.”

Mind Littles Use Truth Peace Chance Levels Emotion Attention Higher Offers Goodness Remains Affair Fixed Peace Of Mind Confined Higher Level

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth

“any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.”

War Desire Passion Peace Behinds Movement Higher

Book:Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

Source: Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse

“In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.”

Thinking Self Eye Moving Order Peace Imagination Talking Higher Performances Spectrum Constructive

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.”

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Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.”

War Order Peace Military Higher Nationalism Faculty Anti War Antiwar Typical Animation Suspended Racket Military Service Original Thought

Author:Smedley Butler

“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.”

Thinking Giving Humanity Courses Peace Leadership Levels Consciousness Moral Higher Judgment Shed There Comes A Time

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.”

Peace History Higher Members Tradition Elites Devoted Higher Education Affirming

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life