Nonviolence Daily

Power based on love, is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. I am fascinated by the law of love. It's the philosopher's stone for me.  -Gandhi, Young India, January 8, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

In heartfelt prayer, the worshipers attention is concentrated on the object of worship so much that he is not conscious of anything else besides. -Gandhi, Ashram Observances In Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Fasting cannot be undertaken against an opponent. Fasting can be resorted to only against one's nearest and dearest, and solely for his or her good.  -Gandhi. Young India, September 30, 1926 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Religion is not a thing that is alien to us, but which has to be evolved out of us.  -Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The idea is that every healthy individual should labor enough for his food, and his intellectual faculties should be exercised not in order to earn a living or amass a fortune, but only in the service of mankind.  -Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Non-cooperation is a process of evolution. It has most aptly been described as evolutionary revolution. Gandhi, Young India, February 23, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I may deliver up my soul with the remembrance of God on my lips. -Gandhi, Pyarelal, Last Phase, Volume II https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Justice should become cheap and expeditious. Today it is a luxury of the rich. And the joy of the gambler.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily born, not if they are imposed. -Gandhi, Mahatma. Volume 3 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Somehow we refuse to believe in the evidence of our senses, that we could not possibly have any attachment for the body without the soul, and we have no evidence whatever that the soul perishes with the body. -Gandhi. Letter to Meera Behn, May 4, 1933 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith, but to make him a better follower of his own faith.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 2 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Religion of our conception. Being thus imperfect is always subject to a process of evolution and reinterpretation.  -Gandhi, Gandhiji's Dialog with Christianity https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I will struggle so that I will either break the bonds or break myself in the effort. -Gandhi February 10, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Love can never express itself by imposing suffering on others. It can only express itself by self suffering, by self purification.  -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 3 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It has been my constant experience that much can be done if the servant actually serves and does not dictate to the people.  -Gandhi Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is an unshakable faith with me that a cause suffers exactly to the extent that it is supported by violence.  -Gandhi, Young India, 1931 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Khadi mentality means the decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessities of life.  -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The more we punish, the more persistent crimes become.  -Gandhi Young India April 30, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I would ask you to forget the political aspect of the program. Political consequences of this struggle there are, but you are not to concern yourself with them. If you do, you will miss the true result, and also the political consequences. -Gandhi, Young India, March 19, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

So long as the superstition that men should obey unjust laws exists, so long will their slavery exist. And a nonviolent resister alone can remove such a superstition. -Gandhi, Hind Swaraj https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 3 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A truthful man cannot long remain violent. He will perceive in the course of his search that he has no need to be violent.  -Gandhi, Young India, May 28, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

But I can boldly declare and with certainty that so long as there is even a handful of men true to their pledge, there can be only one end to the struggle. And that is victory.  -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

To prepare for home rule, individuals must cultivate the spirit of service, renunciation, truth, nonviolence, self-restraint, patience. They must engage in constructive work in order to develop these qualities.  -Gandhi, Young India, January 8, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A violent man’s activity is most visible, while it lasts. But it is always transitory.... Hitler and Mussolini on the one hand and Stalin on the other are able to show the immediate effectiveness of violence.… But the effects of Buddha’s non-violent action persist and are likely to grow with age. And the more it is practiced, the more effective and inexhaustible it becomes, and ultimately the whol...