"This is the way of peace - overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
"Peace Pilgrim" is the story and the message of a woman who made her life a pilgrimage for peace. Through her own search for, and discovery of, her own inner peace, she found that her life's journey would be to walk, and in effect make her life a prayer for peace for all mankind. In beginning her pilgrimage, she simplified her material world greatly; she had very few personal possessions (not more than could be carried in her emblematic tunic) and she relied on her own spiritual fortitude and the kindness of others for sustenance. She walked across the United States six times going on seven, as well as having journeyed through Canada and parts of Mexico, from 1953 to 1981. This work, which was compiled after her death, gives the reader a glimpse into her life from her turbulent search for inner peace to the journey itself and her reflections on it. It provides anecdotes and insights, answers to questions, newspaper clippings, and letters. Most of all, it provides the reader with the message that peace starts with the individual, for without peaceful individuals how can one expect a peaceful society?
Links:
Peace Pilgrim and Friends of Peace Pilgrim Webite
Citation Information:
Peace Pilgrim. (1983). Peace Pilgrim: Her life and work in her own words. Santa Fe, N.M.: Ocean Tree Books.
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