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Non-cooperation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility. -Gandhi Mahatma, Volume 2 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

You have to magnify your own faults a thousand-fold and shut your eyes to the faults of your neighbors. That is the only way to real progress.  -Gandhi, October 26, 1947 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Food must therefore be taken as medicine under proper restraint.  -Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I am clear that whilst this machine age aims at converting men into machines, I am aiming at reinstating man turned machine to his original estate. -Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

History then is a record of interruption of the course of nature. Soulforce being natural is not noted in history. -Gandhi, Hind Swaraj https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Let every youth take a leaf out of my book a make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket. -Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. -Gandhi, Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -Gandhi, November 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

As a satyagrahi, I hold to the faith that all activity pursued with a pure heart is bound to bear fruit whether or not such fruit is visible to us. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Truth is what the voice within tells you. -Gandhi, Mahatma Volume 3 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Our bodies are the real temples rather than buildings of stone. -Gandhi, January 4, 1948 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Your difficulty is not numerical inferiority but the feeling of helplessness that has seized you in the habit of depending on others. -Gandhi, Mahatma Volume 7 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I would warn satyagrahis that such resentment is against the spirit of satyagraha. -Gandhi, Speech made at Madras, March 18, 1919 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Under the ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi should both get the same payment. -Gandhi, Mahatma Volume 8 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Let no one say he is a follower of Gandhi. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers. -Gandhi, March 2, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I wholeheartedly detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time. -Gandhi, Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Even in a most perfect world we shall fail to avoid inequalities. But we can and must avoid strife and bitterness. -Gandhi, Young India, October 7, 1926 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Still the community stood unmoved. Only the weaklings slipped away. But even the weaklings had done their best. Let us not despise them. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I am alone. How can I reach 700,000 villages? This is the argument pride whispers to us. Start with the faith that if you fix yourself up in one single village and succeed, the rest will follow. -Gandhi, Young India, June 17, 1926 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

With satya and ahimsa, you can bring the whole world to your feet. -Gandhi, Young India, March 10, 1920 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The world rests upon a bedrock of sayta or truth. Asatya or untruth also means nonexistent and satya or truth also means that which is. If untruth does not so much as exist, its victory is out of the question. And truth, being that which is, can never be destroyed. This is the doctrine of satyagraha in a nutshell. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Mus...

All religions teach that two opposing forces act upon us and the human endeavor consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances. -Mahatma, Volume 2 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The humility of a satyagrahi knows no bounds. He does not let slip a single opportunity for settlement and he doesn’t mind if anyone therefore looks upon him as timid. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The cause is great. The remedy is equally great. Let us prove worthy of them both. -Gandhi, Speech made at Madras, March 18, 1919 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony