Mahatma Gandhi 1

Insights from Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. God is, even though the whole world denies him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. <<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> From: brainyquote.com <<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> Contact E-Mail: vmalpan.blogspot.com Thank you for visiting this blog.