Nonviolence Daily

The motive will determine the quality of the act. -From the Selected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Mutual trust and mutual love are no trust and no love. The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor, even though you distrust him. -Gandhi, March 3, 1946. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I have not conceived of my mission to be that of a knight-errant, wandering everywhere to help people out of difficult situations. -Gandhi, June 28, 1942. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I’ve come to the fundamental conclusion that if you want something really important to be done, you must not merely satisfy reason. You must move the heart also. -Gandhi, Young India, October 14, 1926. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

On Tolstoy Farm, we made it a rule that the youngsters should not be asked to do what the teachers did not do. -Gandhi’s Autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If there were no greed, there would be no need of armaments. The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi. Music by SkyHiDigital

I shall lose my usefulness the moment I stifle the still small voice within. Gandhi, Young India, September 24, 1921. Music by SkyHiDigital

How can there be room for distinctions of high and low where there is this all embracing fundamental unity underlying the outward diversity? Gandhi, Young India, September 24, 1921. Music by SkyHiDigital

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to irradicate than the habit of physical violence. That’s from the collected works of Mahatma Gandhi. Music by SkyHiDigital

Avoidance of all relationship with the opposing power can ever be a satyagrahis object. But the transformation or verification of that relationship. Gandhi, April 29, 1939. Music by SkyHiDigital

We do not exaggerate when we say that life is a mere bubble. Gandhi, Young India, October 16, 1935. Music by SkyHiDigital

We cannot command results. We can only strive. Gandhi, Young India, January 8, 1925. Music by SkyHiDigital

True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in this world. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, an Autobiography. Music by SkyHiDigital

Victory is impossible until we are able to keep our temper under the gravest provocation. Gandhi, Young India, August 25, 1921. Music by SkyHiDigital

I can say with confidence that if the world is to have peace, nonviolence is the means to that end and no other. Gandhi, July 20, 1947. Music by SkyHiDigital

Everyone should realize the secret that oppression thrives only when the oppressed submit to it. Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 7. Music by SkyHiDigital

Before they dare think of swaraj, they must be brave enough to love one another. Gandhi, Young India, September 29, 1924. Music by SkyHiDigital

Since satyagraha is one of the most powerful methods of direct action, a satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha. Gandhi, Young India, October 20, 1927. Music by SkyHiDigital

Make your heart as broad as the ocean. Gandhi, Young India, January 1, 1925. Music by SkyHiDigital

I believe in the essential unity of humanity. And for that matter, all that lives. Gandhi, Young India, September 3, 1925. Music by SkyHiDigital

No propaganda can be allowed which reviles other religions. Gandhi, Young India, May 29, 1924. Music by SkyHiDigital

Noncooperation is the quickest method of creating public opinion. The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi. Music by SkyHiDigital

My life is an indivisible whole and all my activities run into one another and they all have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind. The Message of Mahatma Gandhi. Music by SkyHiDigital

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth. We have evidence of it working at every step. The universe would disappear without the existence of that force. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj. Music by SkyHiDigital

Trusting one another, however, can never mean trusting with the lips and mistrusting with the heart. From the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 25. Music by SkyHiDigital