Nonviolence Daily

People who believe in the simple truths I have laid down can only propagate them by living them. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A mere belief in ahimsa or the charkha will not do. It should be intelligent and creative. -Gandhi, July 21, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I for one will not hesitate to give water or food to a soldier who comes to me with hands red with murder. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Vol. 6 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide. -Gandhi, Young India, August 18, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

We often make terrible mistakes by copying bad examples. -Gandhi, Young India, February 16, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The silent cry goes out daily to help me to remove these weaknesses and imperfections of mine. -Gandhi, June 22, 1935 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I do not love you because you agree to love me. I love you because I feel it is my duty to love you. -Gandhi, Day to Day with Gandhi, Vol. 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The truth is that power resides in the people and it is entrusted for the time being in those whom they may choose as their representatives. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 6 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

There come to us moments in life when about some things we need no proof from without. A little voice within tells us you are on the right track. Move neither to your left nor right, but keep to the straight and narrow way. -Gandhi, The Leader, December 25, 1916 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The principle idea is to impart the whole education of the body and mind and the soul through the handicraft that is taught to the children. -Gandhi, June 11, 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

You may not waste a grain of rice or a scrap of paper and similarly a minute of your time. It is not ours. It belongs to the nation and we are trustees of it. -Gandhi, Young India, March 19, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Yajña is not yajña if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying. -Gandhi, From Yervada Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If national life becomes so perfect as to become self-regulated, no representation becomes necessary. -Gandhi, Young India, July 2, 1931 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Ahimsa means the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. -Gandhi, Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist. -Gandhi, Young India, August 21, 1920 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I want to realize brotherhood and identify not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize and identify with all of life. Even with such beings that crawl on the earth. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 2 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Ahimsa is a science. -Gandhi, May 6, 1939 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Those who are attracted to nonviolence should according to their ability and opportunity join the experience. -Gandhi, August 11, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The prayers of peace lovers cannot go in vane. -Gandhi, February 24, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If India can discover a way of sublimating the force of violence and turning it into constructive peaceful ways whereby differences of interests can be liquidated, it will be a great day indeed. -Gandhi, August 31, 1947 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is wrong to escape the consequences of one’s actions -Gandhi, The Diary of Mahadev Desai https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Leave the outward expression, the doctrine, the dogma, and the form, and behold the unity and oneness of spirit. Then there will be no need to divide this universe of ours between heaven and hell, no need to divide fellow-beings into virtuous and vicious, the eternally damned and the eternally saved. -Gandhi, Young India, February 9, 1928 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https...

No big or swift movement can be carried on without bold risks, and life will not be worth living if it is not attended with large risks. -Gandhi, Young India, December 15, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I would like people to compete with me in my contentment. -Gandhi, Young India, April 30, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I refuse to suspect human nature. It will, is bound to, respond to any noble and friendly action. -Gandhi, Young India, August 4, 1920 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony