Peace Pilgrim born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season. Starting on January 1, 1953, in Pasadena, California, she adopted the name “Peace Pilgrim” and walked across the United States for 28 years, speaking with others about peace. She was on her seventh cross-country journey when she died.
A transcript of a 1964 conversation with Peace Pilgrim from a broadcast on KPFK radio in Los Angeles, California, was published as “Steps Toward Inner Peace.” She stopped counting miles in that year, having walked more than 25,000 mi (40,000 km) for peace. (via Wikipedia)
Lets take a look on a few of the great quotes by Peace Pilgrim:
On Love:
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
On Life:
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.
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.
On Worry:
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
On God:
You are within God. God is within you.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
On Peace:
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.
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?
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life – bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
Other Quotes:
Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.
For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.
I don’t eat junk foods and I don’t think junk thoughts.
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.