Frontier Gandhi Quotes

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are.  Our worldly power results from our personal power.  Our career is an extension of our personality. People who profoundly achieve aren't necessarily people who do so much, they're people around whom things get done. Mahatma Gandhi and JFK were great examples of this.  Their great achievements lay in all the energy they stirred in other people, the invisible forces they unleashed around them.  By touching their own depths, they touched the depths within others.  That kind of charisma, the power to affect what happens on the earth, from an invisible realm within is the natural right and function of the son of god.  New frontiers are internal ones, the real stretch is always within us.  Instead of expanding our ability or willingness to go out and get anything, we expand our ability to receive what is already here for us.  Personal power emanates from someone who takes life seriously.  The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.  There is no greater seriousness than the full appreciation of the power and importance of love.  Miracles flow from the recognition that love is the purpose of our career.

Rahmat Ali envisaged a sovereign Muslim state which he called Pakistan, comprising P(unjab), A(fghania—or the Northwest Frontier), K(ashmir), S(indh) and Baluch(stan).

Had Kipling's India ever existed, except in my imagination? Had I dreamed it all? But the Frontier Gandhi, still hale and hearty at eighty-nine, bless him, grasped me with both long simian arms, held me close, and said, to my surprise and silent, incredulous joy, "Welcome back. I remember you well.

This demonstration was soon followed by another huge rally of pro-Pakistan Pathans, called to coincide with the visit in April 1947 to Peshawar of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the new viceroy. In their book Freedom at Midnight, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre imply that Mountbatten took considerable risks in attending the rally and was saved from the tribesmen's ire only because of his presence of mind in wearing his olive green military uniform, green being the symbol of Islam and Pakistan. Nothing could be further from the truth. The demonstration, as the local governor of the North-West Frontier Province, Sir Olaf Caroe, and all his Political Agents well knew, was carefully orchestrated by the British to demonstrate that the majority of Pakistanis—unlike the Frontier Gandhi's supporters—favored Pakistan. By the tens of thousands the "tribals" had been trucked in by their maliks and performed with considerable enthusiasm.

I was never asked to help win the Pathans around to the notion of Pakistan. This was done by the British Political Agents who disbursed funds in the tribal areas. They went from malik to malik, assuring them that the subsidies would continue after the end of British rule, so long as their tribes threw in their lot with the notion of Pakistan. The warnings had due effect, and from the moment the "tribals" were won around to Pakistan and partition, the Frontier Gandhi's cause was lost.