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The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.  -Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Just as preservation of one's own culture does not mean contempt for that of others, but requires assimilation of the best that there may be in all of the other cultures, even so, should be the case with religion.  -Gandhi, Young India, December 6, 1928 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I will not go underground. I will not go into shelter. I will come out in the open and let the pilot see I have not a trace of ill will against him.… The longing in our hearts – that he will not come to harm – would reach up to him and his eyes would be opened. If those thousands who were done to death in Hiroshima, if they had died with that prayerful action. . .their sacrifice would not have gon...

The greatest tragedy is a hopeless unwillingness of the villagers to better their lot. -Gandhi January 9, 1937 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the godliness of human nature. -Gandhi, Truth is God https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society, he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppresses egotism.  -Gandhi, Young India, March 21, 1929 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Fortunately for humanity, nonviolence pervades human life and is observed by men without special effort. If we had not born with one another, mankind would have been destroyed long ago. Ahimsa would thus appear to be the law of life, but we are thus far not entitled to any credit for observing it.  -Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://...

Thus, the lynching ultimately proved to be a blessing for me, that is, for the cause. It enhanced the prestige of the Indian community in South Africa, made my work easier, and the experience prepared me for the practice of satyagraha.  -Gandhi, My Early Life, 1869 to 1914 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the Kingdom of God within you and on this earth.  -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles which no power on earth can wipe out. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Not to yield your soul to the conqueror means that you will refuse to do that which your conscience forbids you to do.  -Gandhi, August 18, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable.  -Gandhi, Nonviolence and Social Change https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Satyagraha is an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.  -Gandhi, Harijan, February 24, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips but with the heart. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My presence acted as a check upon petty bickering.  -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Every moment of our life should be filled with mental or physical activity but that activity should be sattvika, tending to truth. -Gandhi, From Yervada Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as humanly possible from violence.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 7 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred. -Gandhi, Young India, February 10, 1927 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The highest honor my friends can do me, is to enforce in their own lives the program that I stand for, or to resist me with their utmost if they do not believe in it. -Gandhi, Young India, June 12, 1924 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

There would be no one to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 2 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder actions in ahimsa.  -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The proper way to view the present outburst of violence throughout the world is to recognize that the technique of unconquerable nonviolence of the strong has not been at all fully discovered as yet. -Gandhi. June 9, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I address this appeal to you and the hope that our movement may even lead you in the right direction and deflect you from the course, which is bound to end in your moral ruin and the reduction of human beings to robots.  -Gandhi, in the London Tribune, October 23, 1942  https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

True knowledge of religion breaks down the barriers between faith and faith. -Gandhi, Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Mine is a life full of joy in the midst of incessant work.  -Gandhi, Young India, October 1, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony