Peace Pilgrim

From 1953 to 1981 a silver haired woman calling herself only "Peace Pilgrim" walked more than 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace. She vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food." In the course of her 28 year pilgrimage she touched the hearts, minds, and lives of thousands of individuals all across North America. Her message was both simple and profound. It continues to inspire people all over the world.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good,

falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

FOUR PREPARATIONS
1. Assume right attitude toward life
2. Live good beliefs.
3. Find your place in the Life Pattern.
4. Simplify life to bring inner and outer well-being into harmony.

FOUR PURIFICATIONS
1. Purification of the bodily temple.
2. Purification of the thoughts.
3. Purification of the desires.
4. Purification of motives.

FOUR RELINQUISHMENTS
1. Relinquishment of self-will.
2. Relinquishment of the feeling of separateness.
3. Relinquishment of attachments.
4. Relinquishment of all negative feelings.

"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!"
~Peace Pilgrim ~Quote of the Month for May 2000

There is a simple test by which you can tell a true teacher from a false one.

In “Core Transformation” it mentions “A good beginning in becoming more accepting is always acknowledging what is, rather than trying to be something we're not”.

Or as Byron Katie says: “The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”

"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation." : Jiddu Krishnamurti

Perhaps Okness is simply I AMness.
Accepting what is.
Knowing what is.
Being simply what is.

As Richard Rohr writes in “The Naked Now”:
“The enormous breakthrough is that when you honor and accept the divine image within yourself, you cannot help but see it in everybody else, too, and you know that it is just as undeserved and unmerited as it is in you. That is why you stop judging, and that is how you start loving unconditionally and without asking whether someone is worthy or not. The breakthrough occurs at once, although the realization deepens and takes on greater conviction over time.”