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Faith must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic, as some think.  -Gandhi, The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If any action of mine claim to be spiritual is proved to be unpractical, it must be pronounced to be a failure. I do believe that the most spiritual act is the most practical act, in the true sense of the term.  -Gandhi, July 1, 1939 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.  -Gandhi, Young India, March 12, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else.  -Gandhi, Young India, March 18, 1926 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

All have not the same capacity. It is in the nature of things, impossible.… I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent. -Gandhi, Young India, November 26, 1931 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.  -Gandhi, September 29, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.  -Gandhi, May 26, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If one takes his satyagraha without having measured his own strength and afterwards sustains a defeat, he not only disgraces himself, but also brings the matchless weapon of satyagraha into disrepute.  -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Under certain circumstances, fasting is the one weapon which God has given us for use in times of utter helplessness. Absence of food is an indispensable, but not the largest part of it. The largest part is the prayer communion with God. It more than adequately replaces physical food.  -Gandhi in a letter to Meera Behn, Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://s...

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment, and the other by arts of love. -Gandhi, Young India, January 8, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.  -Gandhi December 10, 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

When I despair of remember that all through history, the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.  -Gandhi, from the film, Gandhi 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

God resides in every human form and deed, and every particle of his creations and everything that is on his earth.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive. And its working demands the greatest exercise of faith.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 5 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with the truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.  -Gandhi, August 30, 1939 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

From my experience of hundreds, I was going to say thousands of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honor than you and I have.  -Gandhi, Young India, November 19, 1931 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Individual civil disobedience among an unprepared people and by leaders not known to or trusted by them, is of no avail, and mass civil disobedience is an impossibility.  -Gandhi, Young India, January 9th, 1930 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.  -Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Some of the immediate and brilliant results of modern inventions are too maddening to resist. But I have no manner of doubt that the victory of man lies in that resistance. We are in danger of bartering away the permanent good for a momentary pleasure.  -Gandhi, Young India, June 2, 1927 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The spirit of nonviolence necessarily leads to humility.  -Gandhi, Young India, January 12, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

To remove the disease, we must first find the underlying cause. To find the remedy will then be a comparatively easy task.  -Gandhi,  September 15, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

People will never be able to live in peace with each other in towns and palaces. They will have no recourse but to resort to both violence and untruth. We can realize truth and nonviolence only in the simplicity of village life.  -Gandhi, Letter to Nehru, October, 1945 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.  -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Unity among the different races and the different communities belonging to different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.  -Gandhi,  The Collected Works, Volume 26 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony