Seven Peace Pilgrim Quotes for Finding Inner Peace

Peace Pilgrim was a remarkable woman who walked across America many times spreading a message of peace, beginning during the Korean War in 1953 and ending with her death in 1981. She vowed to keep walking until there was peace in the world, and she had walked more than 25,000 miles before she stopped counting.

My copy of Peace Pilgrim – Her Life and Work in Her Own Words.

After her death, Peace Pilgrim’s friends compiled her writings and interviews into a book called Peace Pilgrim – Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. My copy of the book contains hundreds of underlined inspirational quotes, so I decided to pull some of them and curate them into lists that relate to our everyday lives. I’ve also included page numbers, so if you obtain your own copy, you can find the quotes easily.

Here are seven Peace Pilgrim quotes that relate to finding inner peace and corresponding page numbers in the print edition of Peace Pilgrim – Her Life and Work in Her Own Words.

1. 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 (95).
2. When you have found inner peace you have no more feeling of need to become—you are content to be, which includes following your divine guidance. However, you keep on growing—but harmoniously (145).
3. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is, but no one can find inner peace except by working, not in self-centered way, but for the whole human family (132).
4. In this materialistic age we have such false criteria by which to measure success. We measure it in terms of dollars, in terms of material things. But happiness and inner peace do not lie in that direction (40).
5. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others (132).
6. If you want to make peace, you must be peaceful (3).
7. This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love (97).

Peace Pilgrim’s friends believed that to charge money for a book would be at odds with her core values and decided to offer it for free. They receive enough money in donations to publish and fulfill every request. You can order copies and other materials for free directly from Friends of Peace Pilgrim.