“To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“You civilised fellows are all cowards. Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
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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
“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I believed then, and I believe even now, that, no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one’s meals.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
