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Mildred Norman Ryder, Peace Pilgrim

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In the summer of 1952 Mildred Norman Ryder, traveling alone, became the first woman to hike the entire length of the 2050 mile-long Appalachian Trail. Adopting the moniker Peace Pilgrim, she continued walking throughout the United States for 29 more years, logging an additional 25,000 miles and touching others with the simplest of messages: overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, hatred with love.
Be The Change
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Consider Ryder's Steps Toward Inner Peace vis-a-vis the tender state of the world today, and imagine embracing her principles.
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Support  Friends of Peace Pilgrim to continue the good works of Mildred Norman Ryder.
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Embark on a walking pilgrimage, if just for a single day.
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Reflections (10)

Donny
Thank you for making this movie available.
Frank Harper
I have ridden a bicycle across America twice after experiencing the war in Vietnam and I can't imagining walking across America. To have been involved in that tragic war was heartbreaking. So much death and destruction that could have been avoided only if the leaders of the United States and Vietnam had adopted the ways of this amazing women - Peace Pilgrim!
Karthik
Hi, We're looking to screen this film in our community. Is the subtitles for this movie available somewhere / with you?
Carla Klein
Thank you very much for this video, I love it!
joan
She is a breathe of fresh from what we have as a people today.
No sense of greed, envy,total peace with no attachments.
Toni
A Peace Pilgrim...I love it. <3 <3 <3
Barbara
I am deeply grateful that this movie was made and then shared so freely. It is a great blessing to my heart and I pray for the courage and one-pointedness to move my life from willingness into total surrendered action.
Abdul
Lovely, Peaceful, grateful, inspiring, encouraging, shaking, daring, effortless, excellent, meaningful and so complete.
Thank you so much for sharing this video its wonderful and I have less words to express my feelings.
Thank you

Love Abdul
E. Katherine Kerr
The Peace Pilgrim has been my hero for many years. She is inspiring me to set off on my own pilgrimage (not walking) to give what I know to help people achieve inner peace.
ElizabethAnne
What an inspiring video about a truly amazing woman. The simplest of things are the most profound and the most profound of things are the simplest. Mildred Norman was truly a woman who walked the walk. Thank you for sharing this video about her pilgrimage.

In the past few weeks I have started to walk, and it is such a healing activity. As I walk I smile at other people and they smile back. Yesterday I walked along the shore of Lake Ontario with my daughter, the warm sand caressing the soles of our feet. With my daughters's encouragement I also walked farefoot through the grass, and felt its cool and cushioning embrace. The simple activity of walking softly on Mother Earth is an amazingly healing activity. As each of us heals and connects with out inner state of peace it follows that we radiate peace and positivity and we become the change.
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