Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

 

What is change?  One form appears, and another disappears.  Can we say that the butterfly used to be a caterpillar?  A substance in the caterpillar takes on the form of the butterfly.

To expect something is to look for something pleasant.  Searching for the pleasurable is a form of denial.  You cannot expect anything, because the expectation is within you, and what you are waiting for is dependent on external forces.

Do not believe a thing simply because it has been said.  Do not put your faith in traditions only because they have been honored by many generations.  Do not believe a thing because the general opinion believes it to be true or because it has been said repeatedly.  Do not believe a thing because of the single witness of one of the sages of antiquity.  Do not believe a thing because the probabilities are in its favor, or because you are in the habit of believing it to be true.  Do not believe in that which comes to your imagination, thinking that it must be the revelation of a superior Being.  Believe nothing that binds you to the sole authority of your masters or priests.  That which you have tried yourself, which you have experienced, which you have recognized as true, and which will be beneficial to you and to others; believe that, and shape your conduct to it.

Religion is more than life.  Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scale of philosophical comparison.

If all were of the same religious opinion, there would be no religion.  No sooner does a religion start than it breaks into pieces.  The process is for the religion to go on dividing until each man has his own religion, until each man has thought out his own thoughts and carved out for himself his own religion.

A profound understanding of religions allows the destruction of the barriers that separate them.

Humanity is not divided into airtight compartments that inhibit going from one to the other.  And when one counts them in the thousands, they will not be less linked one to the other.

We think as our ancestors did, away back in pre-historic ages. Where even tradition cannot pierce the gloom of that past, there our glorious ancestors have taken up their side of the problem and have thrown the challenge to the world.  Our solution is renunciation, giving up, fearlessness, and love; these are the fittest to survive.  Giving up the senses makes a nation survive.

Until man can accord to others the right of free belief on all subjects, and be willing to believe truth under whatever form it might appear, no universal religion will be manifest to the world.

The characteristic of my nation is this transcendentalism, this struggle to go beyond, this daring to tear the veil off the face of nature and have at any risk, at any price, a glimpse of the beyond.

To live completely, fully, in the moment is to live with what is, the actual, without any sense of condemnation or justification – then you understand it so totally that you are finished with it.  When you see clearly the problem is solved.

What is change?  One form appears, and another disappears.  Can we say that the butterfly used to be a caterpillar?  A substance in the caterpillar takes on the form of the butterfly.

To expect something is to look for something pleasant.  Searching for the pleasurable is a form of denial.  You cannot expect anything, because the expectation is within you, and what you are waiting for is dependent on external forces.

Do not believe a thing simply because it has been said.  Do not put your faith in traditions only because they have been honored by many generations.  Do not believe a thing because the general opinion believes it to be true or because it has been said repeatedly.  Do not believe a thing because of the single witness of one of the sages of antiquity.  Do not believe a thing because the probabilities are in its favor, or because you are in the habit of believing it to be true.  Do not believe in that which comes to your imagination, thinking that it must be the revelation of a superior Being.  Believe nothing that binds you to the sole authority of your masters or priests.  That which you have tried yourself, which you have experienced, which you have recognized as true, and which will be beneficial to you and to others; believe that, and shape your conduct to it.

Find the Unique and possess the Whole.  This truly is our highest, most sublime privilege.  It is in the law of this unity that is, as long as we understand it, our immutable force.  Its living principle is the force that resides in truth – Truth is one.

Your way is very good for you, but not for me. My way is good for me but not for you.

With the clouds hanging in the air above the trees, and the birds falling silent before the storm, this morning brings forth serious reflection, bringing into question the entirety of existence, the gods themselves, and all human activity.

Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from an indomitable will.

Fearlessness is the first requirement of spirituality.  Cowards can never be moral.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty, and that this defence prevails, though the world be against the individual resister.

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