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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.

Peace Pilgrim

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Peace Pilgrim
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 18
Died: 1981
Died: July 7
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Egg Harbor City
New Jersey
Mildred Lisette Norman
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All right prayer has good effect, but if you give your whole life to the prayer you multiply its power... No one really knows the full power of prayer. Of course, there is a relationship between prayer and action. Receptive prayer result in an inner receiving, which motivates to right action.
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
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When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do in this world, and has equal potential. We are in many varied stages of growth this is true because we have free will. You have free will as to whether you will finish the mental and emotional growing up. Many choose not to.
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Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.
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It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.
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If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!
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Remember that no one can hurt you except yourself. If someone does a mean thing to you, that person is hurt. You are not really hurt unless you become embittered, or unless you become angry and perhaps do a mean thing in return.
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I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.
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The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.
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We limit ourselves by thinking things can't be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible - many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn't know it can't be done who does it!
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People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
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....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.
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How good it is to work in the invigorating fresh air under the life-giving sun amid the inspiring beauty of nature. There are many who recognize this... How good it is to earn you livelihood by contributing constructively to the society in which you live - everyone should, of course, and in a healthy society everyone would.
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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.
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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
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When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.
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I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There's a spark of good in everybody, no mater how deeply it may be buried. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously.
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When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!
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If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.
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