If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
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.
I don’t eat junk foods and I don’t think junk thoughts.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.
The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.
We are that which activates the body.
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
You are within God. God is within you.
Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you’re crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
I’ve met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I’ve met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
You’re in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of 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.
Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.
If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.
There is great freedom in simplicity of living.
If you think you can’t do something, you can’t. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can.