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When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

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
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Life
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Opportunities
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Serve
Problems
Purpose
Opportunity

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Real peace is more than the absence of war it is an absence of the causes of war.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
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If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.
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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
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Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan.
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Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.
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Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.
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When you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless energy.
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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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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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There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
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