Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they’re capable of.
The ideal society has yet to be built – one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.
I have faith that God will care for me, and God does provide my needs. I don’t in any way feel insecure because I don’t know where I will sleep at night, where or when I will eat next. When you have spiritual security, you have no more feeling of need for material security.
Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.
We limit ourselves by thinking things can’t be done. Many think peace in the world is impossible – many think that inner peace cannot be attained. It is the one who doesn’t know it can’t be done who does it!
When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society – collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.
People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.
My mission is to help promote peace by helping others to find inner peace. If I can find it, you can too. Peace is an idea whose time has come.
Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.
Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.
If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.
You can find God if you will only seek – by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.
Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.
Peace and freedom! These things shall be! How soon these things shall be – whether now or whether after great destruction and new beginnings and eons of time – is up to us!
Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago – of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God’s way is bound to prevail in the end.
My inner peace remains in spite of any outward thing. Only insofar as I remain in harmony can I draw others into harmony, and so much more harmony is needed before the world can find peace.
When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement.
If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy – individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don’t now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.
To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy – health and happiness and inner peace.
It isn’t enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.