The Metta Center for Nonviolence

Nonviolence Daily

Nonviolence Daily is a thought-for-the-day from Gandhi with a short and inspiring commentary from Professor Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence. 

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Oct 4, 2024

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Day 290 21.06.2024

My patriotism is not exclusive.  -Gandhi Young India, March 4, 1924 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 289 20.06.2024

To serve one's neighbor is to serve the world.  -Gandhi, Ashram Observances In Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 288 19.06.2024

If I had the power I would stop every sadavrata where free meals are given. — Gandhi, Young India, August 13, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 287 18.06.2024

If everyone lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a Paradise.  -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 286 17.06.2024

Real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.  -Gandhi, Young India, January 29, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.ban...

Day 285 14.06.2024

Do you believe that a coward can ever disobey a law that he dislikes?  -Gandhi, Hind Swaraj https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 284 13.06.2024

If it is allowed for some that the practice of love is possible, it is arrogance not to allow even the possibility of its practice in all the others.  -Gandhi September 26, 1936 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 283 12.06.2024

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth, even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. -Gandhi, The mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 282 11.06.2024

It is easy to see that soul force is infinitely superior to body force.  Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 281 10.06.2024

There is considerable force in the warning given by the prophet against his disciples, copying his fasting over and above the semi fast of Ramadan. “My maker sends me food enough when I fast. Not so to you,” said the prophet. -Gandhi's Health Guide https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 280 07.06.2024

I am used to misrepresentation all of my life. It is the lot of every public worker.  -Gandhi, May 26, 1926 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 279 06.06.2024

Sometimes non-cooperation becomes as much a duty as cooperation.  -Gandhi, Young India, January 19, 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 278 05.06.2024

Society is sustained by several services. The scavenger constitutes the foundation of all services.  -Gandhi, Mahatma https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 277 04.06.2024

If each retained possession of only what he needed, no one would be in want and all would live in contentment.  -Gandhi, Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 276 03.06.2024

The spinning wheel enables us to identify ourselves with chores. The millions imagine that money can bring them anything in the world, but it is not so.  -Gandhi, October 13, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 275 31.05.2024

I do not believe in the accepted Western form of democracy with its universal voting for parliamentary representatives.  -Gandhi and Louis Fischer's, A Week with Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 274 30.05.2024

 If one single satyagrahi holds out to the end, victory is certain.  -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 273 29.05.2024

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause committed or inflicted on another, is a crime against humanity.  -Gandhi July 20, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 272 28.05.2024

I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods, even to serve the noblest of causes. Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.  -Gandhi, Young India, December 11, 1924 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp...

Day 271 27.05.2024

I do not believe that an individual may gain spiritually, and those around him suffer. I believe in the essential unity of man, and for that matter of all that lives.  -Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 8 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 270 24.05.2024

Nonviolence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, the evil which men do not. Human beings themselves. -Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 8 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 269 23.05.2024

The opinions I have formed and the conclusions I have arrived at are not final. I may change them tomorrow. -Gandhi, Mahatma. Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 268 22.05.2024

The German Jews will score a lasting victory over the German Gentiles, in the sense that they will have converted the latter to an appreciation of human dignity.  -Gandhi November 26, 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 267 21.05.2024

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of service of the masses.  -Gandhi, Mahatma. Volume 8 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Day 266 20.05.2024

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.  -Gandhi, Young India, February 5, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

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