โ
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of lightโyears and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
โ
โ
Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
โ
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi: An Autobiography)
โ
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi: An Autobiography)
โ
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together. For unity and peace.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
ูุฌุจ ุฃู ุฃูุชุญ ููุงูุฐ ุจูุชู ููู ุชูุจ ุนููุฉ ุฑูุงุญ ูู ุงูุซูุงูุงุช , ุจุดุฑุท ุฃู ูุง ุชูุชูุนูู ู
ู ุฌุฐูุฑู
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
I have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the Bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending the neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.
โ
โ
Barbara Brown Taylor (Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith)
โ
Orang yang mencari-cari kesalahan orang lain, buta terhadap kesalahannya sendiri.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred."
- by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Love is the prerogative of the brave (Mohandas Gandhi)
โ
โ
Naseem Rakha (The Crying Tree)
โ
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Selfishness is blind.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Hanya Tuhan yang boleh mengambil hidup seseorang, karena Ia yang memberikannya.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Di mana ada cara dan tujuan yang baik, di sana Tuhan hadir.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor, and instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies, and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of the work which makes no difference whatsoever.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi)
โ
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
Where there is love there is life
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (All Men Are Brothers)
โ
Kelemahan tubuh bukanlah kelemahan yang sejati.
Kelemahan sejati adalah kelemahan jiwa.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Pikiran jahat menunjukkan bahwa kita sakit, jadi kita harus menghindarinya.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings)
โ
Itโs the action, not the fruit of the action, thatโs important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that thereโll be any fruit. But that doesnโt mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.โ โMOHANDAS GANDHI
โ
โ
John Lewis (Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change)
โ
Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and no way out but to wrestle with it
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Perbedaan pun terbukti berguna, selama ada toleransi.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Keinginan yang sungguh-sungguh dan murni pasti terkabul.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked, always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. "Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane." โ Mahatma Gandhi
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings)
โ
Violence is any day preferable to impotence.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
civilization able to produce a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Malik Ambar, a Periyar, a Muhammad Iqbal and a Mohandas Gandhi is a place open to radical experiments with self-definition. It
โ
โ
Sunil Khilnani (Incarnations: India in 50 Lives)
โ
Spiritโ comes from the Latin word โto breathe.โ What we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. Despite usage to the contrary, there is no necessary implication in the word โspiritualโ that we are talking of anything other than matter (including the matter of which the brain is made), or anything outside the realm of science. On occasion, I will feel free to use the word. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
โ
โ
Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
โ
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind even if you're a minority of one. The truth is still the truth.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
This book is written from a changing town in Virginia, but this class of mine, these people--the ones who smell like an ashtray in the checkout line, devour a carton of Little Debbies at a sitting, and praise Jesus for a truck with no spare tire--exist in every state in our nation. Maybe the next time we on the left encounter such seemingly self-screwing, stubborn, God-obsessed folks, we can be open to their trials, understand the complexity of their situation, even have enough solidarity to pop for a cheap retread tire out of our own pockets, simply because that would be the kind thing to do and surely would make the ghosts of Joe Hill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mohandas Gandhi smile.
โ
โ
Joe Bageant
โ
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned slaves; Albert Einstein and Mohandas Gandhi were imperfect husbands and fathers. The list goes on indefinitely. We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future? Some of the habits of our age will doubtless be considered barbaric by later generations โ perhaps for insisting that small children and even infants sleep alone instead of with their parents; or exciting nationalist passions as a means of gaining popular approval and achieving high political office; or allowing bribery and corruption as a way of life; or keeping pets; or eating animals and jailing chimpanzees; or criminalizing the use of euphoriants by adults; or allowing our children to grow up ignorant.
โ
โ
Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
โ
Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Jangan pikirkan hal-hal yang besar, pikirkanlah hal-hal yang baik.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
God is one whole; we are the parts.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
The mere fact that this thought has sprung up among different nations and at different times indicates that it is inherent in human nature and contains the truth.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth)
โ
There is no way to peace, peace is the only way
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Mรชme en exploitant toutes les possibilitรฉs du langage, on ne peut pas exprimer toute la complexitรฉ d'une pensรฉe.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
โ
The aim of the sinless One lies in not doing evil unto those who have done evil unto him.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
โ
So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
โ
I believed then, and I believe even now, that, no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for oneโs meals.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
โ
The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.โ - Mohandas Gandhi
โ
โ
Iain Rob Wright (Animal Kingdom)
โ
the old and simple truth that it is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another, became ever clearer, so that fewer and fewer people were able to believe the sophistries by which the distortion of the truth had been made so plausible. ย
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
โ
โ
My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi
โ
I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
โ
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
โ
โ
Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
โ
A Satyagrahi obeys the laws of society intelligently and of his own free will, because he considers it to be his sacred duty to do so. It is only when a person has thus obeyed the laws of society scrupulously that he is in a position to judge as to which particular rules are good and just and which unjust and iniquitous. Only then does the right accrue to him of the civil disobedience of certain laws in well defined circumstances.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography)
โ
in every individual a spiritual element is manifested that gives life to all that exists, and that this spiritual element strives to unite with everything of a like nature to itself, and attains this aim through love.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, โPeople of the Book risk putting the book above people.
โ
โ
Barbara Brown Taylor (Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith)
โ
He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth)
โ
I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
Reader: Will you not admit that you are arguing against yourself? You know that what the English obtained in their own country they obtained by using brute force. I know you have argued that what they have obtained is useless, but that does not affect my argument. They wanted useless things and they got them. My point is that their desire was fulfilled. What does it matter what means they adopted? Why should we not obtain our goal, which is good, by any means whatsoever, even by using violence? Shall I think of the means when I have to deal with a thief in the house? My duty is to drive him out anyhow. You seem to admit that we have received nothing, and that we shall receive nothing by petitioning. Why, then, may we do not so by using brute force? And, to retain what we may receive we shall keep up the fear by using the same force to the extent that it may be necessary. You will not find fault with a continuance of force to prevent a child from thrusting its foot into fire. Somehow or other we have to gain our end.
Editor: Your reasoning is plausible. It has deluded many. I have used similar arguments before now. But I think I know better now, and I shall endeavour to undeceive you. Let us first take the argument that we are justified in gaining our end by using brute force because the English gained theirs by using similar means. It is perfectly true that they used brute force and that it is possible for us to do likewise, but by using similar means we can get only the same thing that they got. You will admit that we do not want that. Your belief that there is no connection between the means and the end is a great mistake. Through that mistake even men who have been considered religious have committed grievous crimes. Your reasoning is the same as saying that we can get a rose through planting a noxious weed. If I want to cross the ocean, I can do so only by means of a vessel; if I were to use a cart for that purpose, both the cart and I would soon find the bottom. "As is the God, so is the votary", is a maxim worth considering. Its meaning has been distorted and men have gone astray. The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree. I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan. If, therefore, anyone were to say : "I want to worship God; it does not matter that I do so by means of Satan," it would be set down as ignorant folly. We reap exactly as we sow. The English in 1833 obtained greater voting power by violence. Did they by using brute force better appreciate their duty? They wanted the right of voting, which they obtained by using physical force. But real rights are a result of performance of duty; these rights they have not obtained. We, therefore, have before us in English the force of everybody wanting and insisting on his rights, nobody thinking of his duty. And, where everybody wants rights, who shall give them to whom? I do not wish to imply that they do no duties. They don't perform the duties corresponding to those rights; and as they do not perform that particular duty, namely, acquire fitness, their rights have proved a burden to them. In other words, what they have obtained is an exact result of the means they adapted. They used the means corresponding to the end. If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay you for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that means do not matter?
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
India had survived through the centuries by combining cultural imperviousness with extraordinary psychological skill in dealing with occupiers. Mohandas Gandhiโs passive resistance to British rule was made possible in the first instance by the spiritual uplift of the Mahatma, but it also proved to be the most effective way to fight the imperial power because of its appeal to the core values of freedom of liberal British society. Like Americans two centuries earlier, Indians vindicated their independence by invoking against their colonial rulers concepts of liberty they had studied in British schools.
โ
โ
Henry Kissinger (World Order)
โ
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: Wikipedia
โ
โ
Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
โ
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
The longer I live-especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death-the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
โ
โ
Golden Flower
โ
Goodreads doesn't vet the quotes section, and you can put up pretty much whatever you want.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Gandhi: Essential Writings)
โ
There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible. But in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
Remember then: there is only one time that is important-- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
it appears that, as is the case in our time with the ills of all nations, the reason lies in the lack of a reasonable religious teaching which by explaining the meaning of life would supply a supreme law for the guidance of conduct and would replace the more than dubious precepts of pseudo-religion and pseudo-science with the immoral conclusions deduced from them and commonly called 'civilization'. ย
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
I can think of only one remedy for this awful state of thingsโthat educated men should make a point of travelling thirdclass and reforming the habits of the people, as also of never letting the railway authorities rest in peace, sending in complaints wherever necessary, never resorting to bribes or any unlawful means for obtaining their own comforts, and never putting up with infringements of rules on the part of anyone concerned. This, I am sure, would bring about considerable improvement.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi)
โ
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Hind Sawraj (Hindi Edition))
โ
We all need love, regardless of who we are or of our condition, position, or status. Love makes our world go around. As the sage Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi wrote, โLove is the most powerful force in the world, yet it is the humblest imaginable.โ39 We are love. Love is the essence of mind, body, and spirit. Superhealing is a by-product of acknowledging the spiritual aspect of being, the divine essence of us, or the force of love, which manifests and guides our health and healing. It is love that fuels the bodyโs capacity to heal and regenerate itself physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
โ
โ
Elaine R. Ferguson
โ
The reason for the astonishing fact that a majority of working people submit to a handful of idlers who control their labour and their very lives is always and everywhere the sameโwhether the oppressors and oppressed are of one race or whether, as in India and elsewhere, the oppressors are of a different nation.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
How few there are who gather the gifts which lie in profusion at their feet: how many there are, who, in wilful waywardness, turn their eyes away from them and complain with a wail that they have not that which I have given them; many of them defiantly repudiate not only My gifts, but Me also, Me, the Source of all blessings and the Author of their being.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi (Letters from One: Correspondence (and more) of Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi; including โLetter to a Hinduโ [a selected edit] (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 3))
โ
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.
โ
โ
Mahatma Gandhi
โ
The alternative to violence is nonviolent resistance. This method was made famous in our generation by Mohandas K. Gandhi, who used it to free India from the domination of the British empire. Five points can be made concerning nonviolence as a method in bringing about better racial conditions.
First, this is not a method for cowards; it does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests as the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonaggressive in the sense that he is not physically aggressive toward his opponent. But his mind and emotions are always active, constantly seeking to persuade the opponent that he is mistaken. This method is passive physically but strongly active spiritually; it is nonaggressive physically but dynamically aggressive spiritually.
A second point is that nonviolent resistance does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. The nonviolent resister must often express his protest through noncooperation or boycotts, but he realizes that noncooperation and boycotts are not ends themselves; they are merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent. The end is redemption and reconciliation. The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.
A third characteristic of this method is that the attack is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who are caught in those forces. It is evil we are seeking to defeat, not just the persons victimized by evil. Those of us who struggle against racial injustice must come to see that the basic tension is not between races. As I like to say to the people in Montgomery, Alabama: โThe tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is at bottom between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. And if there is a victory it will be a victory not merely for fifty thousand Negroes, but a victory for justice and the forces of light. We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may happen to be unjust.โ
A fourth point that must be brought out concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. In struggling for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.
โ
โ
Martin Luther King Jr.
โ
Evidently Nehru, though a nationalist at the political level, was intellectually and emotionally drawn to the Indus civilization by his regard for internationalism, secularism, art, technology and modernity.
By contrast, Nehruโs political rival, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, neither visited Mohenjo-daro nor commented on the significance of the Indus civilization. Nor did Nehruโs mentor, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indiaโs greatest nationalist leader. In Jinnahโs case, this silence is puzzling, given that the Indus valley lies in Pakistan and, moreover, Jinnah himself was born in Karachi, in the province of Sindh, not so far from Mohenjo-daro. In Gandhiโs case, the silence is even more puzzling. Not only was Gandhi, too, an Indus dweller, so to speak, having been born in Gujarat, in Saurashtra, but he must surely also have become aware in the 1930s of the Indus civilization as the potential origin of Hinduism, plus the astonishing revelation that it apparently functioned without resort to military violence. Yet, there is not a single comment on the Indus civilization in the one hundred large volumes of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. The nearest he comes to commenting is a touching remark recorded by the Mahatmaโs secretary when the two of them visited the site of Marshallโs famous excavations at Taxila, in northern Punjab, in 1938. On being shown a pair of heavy silver ancient anklets by the curator of the Taxila archaeological museum, โGandhiji with a deep sigh remarked: โJust like what my mother used to wear.
โ
โ
Andrew Robinson (The Indus)