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The pursuit of truth is true bakti. -Gandhi, Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

No awakening is possible without the people at large realizing their power. -Gandhi, Speeches and Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Nature is relentless and will have full revenge for such violation of her laws. -Gandhi, Young India, March 12, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Service and not bread becomes with us the staff of life. We eat and drink, sleep and wake for service alone. Such an attitude of mind brings us real happiness. -Gandhi, Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My goal is friendship with the world. And I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

In this, there’s no room for machines that would displace human labor and that would concentrate power in the hands of a few. -Gandhi, July 28, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

When a child, my nurse taught me to repeat ramanama whenever I felt afraid or miserable. And it has been second nature with me with growing knowledge and advancing years. -Gandhi, August 17, 1934 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion. Such that it covers all the elements of society and in the end makes itself irresistible. Violence interrupts the process and prolongs the real revolution of the whole social structure. -Gandhi, March 31, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

You must never despair of human nature. -Gandhi, November 5, 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I believe in the sovereign rule of love which makes no distinctions. -Gandhi, Young India, May 28, 1924 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle than the glass bangles that ladies wear. -Gandhi, February 2, 1934 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I must say that beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no disadvantage whatever. -Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The only thing that separates us from the brute with which we have so much in common is the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. -Gandhi, Mahatma Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

If we had nodded here to this principle instead of winning, we would not only have lost all along the line, but also forfeited the sympathy which had been enlisted in our favor. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is not that I am incapable of anger, for instance, but I succeed almost on all occasions to keep my feelings under control. -Gandhi, Young India, October 1, 1931 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Love is not love which asks for a return. -Gandhi, from "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 14." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Man is not omnipotent. He therefore serves the world best by first serving his neighbor. -Gandhi, "Ashram Observances in Action." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Man is the maker of his own destiny and therefore I ask you to become makers of your own destiny. –Gandhi, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 26. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The law of love could best be understood and learned through little children. -Gandhi from, "The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The movement has been conceived so as to minimize the evil wrought by the craze for amassing large fortunes through the use of dead tools in order to avoid having to deal with very sensitive human tools. -Gandhi from a booklet called "Village Industries." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Those who believe in the justice of their cause need to possess boundless patience. -Gandhi, Young India, April 28th, 1929. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I am satisfied that many Englishmen and Indian officials honestly believe that they are administering one of the best systems devised in the world. -"The Selected Writings of Mahatma Gandhi," edited by Ronald Duncan. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. – Gandhi, from, "Mahatma Volume 7." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Suspicion is the brood of violence. Nonviolence cannot but trust. -Gandhi, "Young India," May 20th, 1925 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony