“God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“[T]he devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness. It certainly is not blind faith. The devotion of the Gita has the least to do with the externals. A devotee may use, if he likes, rosaries, forehead marks, make offerings, but these things are no test of his devotion. He is the devotee who is jealous of none, who is a fount of mercy, who is without egotism, who is selfless, who treats alike cold and heat, happiness and misery, who is ever forgiving, who is always contented, whose resolutions are firm, who has dedicated mind and soul to God, who causes no dread, who is not afraid of others, who is free from exultation, sorrow and fear, who is pure, who is versed in action and yet remains unaffected by it, who renounces all fruit, good or bad, who treats friend and foe alike, who is untouched by respect or disrespect, who is not puffed up by praise, who does not go under when people speak ill of him who loves silence and solitude, who has a disciplined reason. Such devotion is inconsistent with the existence at the same time of strong attachments.
We thus see that to be a real devotee is to realize oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no cause that I am prepared to kill for. .”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world’
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control. It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many of the journals in the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? And who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil generally, go on together, and man must make his choice.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“La fuerza no proviene de la capacidad fisica. Proviene de una voluntad indomable.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
