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A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Peace Pilgrim

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Peace Pilgrim
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 18
Died: 1981
Died: July 7
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Peace Activist
Teacher
Egg Harbor City
New Jersey
Mildred Lisette Norman
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Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.
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Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.
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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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Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love!
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I began my pilgrimage on the first of January in 1953. It is my spiritual birthday of sorts. It was a period in which I was merged with the whole. No longer was I a seed buried under the ground, but I felt as a flower reaching out effortlessly toward the sun.
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People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.
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Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
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I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.
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A few really dedicated people can offset the ill effects of masses of out-of-harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter.
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Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. There are so many religions because immature people tend to emphasize trivial differences instead of important likenesses. Differences between faiths lie in creeds and rituals rather than in religious principles.
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Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
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Looking through the eyes of the divine nature you see the essence within the manifestation, the creator within the creation, and it is a wonderful, wonderful world!
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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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When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.
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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
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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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Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.
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