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Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

Peace Pilgrim

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Peace Pilgrim
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 18
Died: 1981
Died: July 7
Activist
Peace Activist
Teacher
Egg Harbor City
New Jersey
Mildred Lisette Norman
Life
Realities
Beneath
Surface
Willing
Face
Faces
Found
Verities
Reality
Squarely

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Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
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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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When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.
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The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of 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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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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Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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I have faith that God will care for me, and God does provide my needs. I don't in any way feel insecure because I don't know where I will sleep at night, where or when I will eat next. When you have spiritual security, you have no more feeling of need for material security.
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Pure love is a willingness to give, without a thought of receiving anything in return. Love can save the world from nuclear destruction. Love God: turn to God with receptiveness and responsiveness. Love your fellow human beings: turn to them with friendliness and givingness. Make yourself fit to be called a child of God by living the way of love.
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People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.
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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
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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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Do not believe in me or any other teacher, rather trust in your own inner voice. This is your guide, this is your teacher. Your teacher is within not without. Know yourself, not me!
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If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.
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If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.
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Humanity can only improve as people improve. When you have improved your life, you can inspire those around you to want to improve their lives. Remember that a few in harmony with God's will are more powerful than multitudes out of harmony.
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The world is like a mirror if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.
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