Mahatma Gandhi and Non-Violence

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Mahatma Gandhi has been an inspiration for me for decades. His great achievements include helping to unite India against the British and showing the world how non-violent civic action can change a society.

He practiced what he preached including self-sufficiency, vegetarianism, tolerance, non-violence and selfless service to others.

"Spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants" - M.K. Gandhi

"A man without a religion is like a ship without a rudder."

"My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth."

"My religion is based on truth and nonviolence. Truth is my God. Nonviolence is the means of realizing Him"

More on Gandhi later...

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More great Gandhi quotes:

On non-violence:

"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind."

"Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored."

"Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you."

On God:

"God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist."

"God’s grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation."

"I believe in absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity."

"For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love."

For more quotes and info on Gandhi's life here's a good site:
http://www.mkgandhi.org/

[LdyNimue]

A great man, he made the total connection of God, Humanity, Earth & Love (most of all love). His teachings are an inspiration!!

[Anima_Mercury]

Thank you Skip for opening this thread. Gandhi, what an extra-ordinary man... He fought without fighting :)

He once was asked: "What do you think of civilization?"

And he replied: "That would be a good idea."



♥ Love ♥

Anima_Mercury

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