Peace Pilgrim Quotes About Inspiration
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When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.
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Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.
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Were I to solve problems for others they would remain stagnant; they would never grow. It would be a great injustice to them. My approach is to help with cause rather than effect. When I help others, it is by instilling within them the inspiration to work out problems by themselves. If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.
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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.
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