“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947.
So let’s just move on to some of my favourite tips from Mahatma Gandhi.
1. Change yourself.
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
If you change yourself you will change your world. If you change how you think then you will change how you feel and what actions you take. And so the world around you will change. Not only because you are now viewing your environment through new lenses of thoughts and emotions but also because the change within can allow you to take action in ways you wouldn’t have – or maybe even have thought about – while stuck in your old thought patterns.
And the problem with changing your outer world without changing yourself is that you will still be you when you reach that change you have strived for. You will still have your flaws, anger, negativity, self-sabotaging tendencies etc. intact.
And so in this new situation you will still not find what you hoped for since your mind is still seeping with that negative stuff. And if you get more without having some insight into and distance from your ego it may grow more powerful. Since your ego loves to divide things, to find enemies and to create separation it may start to try to create even more problems and conflicts in your life and world.
2. You are in control.
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a “normal” or a common way to react to different things. But that’s mostly just all it is.
You can choose your own thoughts, reactions and emotions to pretty much everything. You don’t have to freak out, overreact of even react in a negative way. Perhaps not every time or instantly. Sometimes a knee-jerk reaction just goes off. Or an old thought habit kicks in.
And as you realize that no-one outside of yourself can actually control how you feel you can start to incorporate this thinking into your daily life and develop it as a thought habit. A habit that you can grow stronger and stronger over time. Doing this makes life a whole lot easier and more pleasurable.
3. Forgive and let it go.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
Fighting evil with evil won’t help anyone. And as said in the previous tip, you always choose how to react to something. When you can incorporate such a thought habit more and more into your life then you can react in a way that is more useful to you and others.
You realize that forgiving and letting go of the past will do you and the people in your world a great service. And spending your time in some negative memory won’t help you after you have learned the lessons you can learn from that experience. You’ll probably just cause yourself more suffering and paralyze yourself from taking action in this present moment.
If you don’t forgive then you let the past and another person to control how you feel. By forgiving you release yourself from those bonds. And then you can focus totally on, for instance, the next point.
4. Without action you aren’t going anywhere.
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
Without taking action very little will be done. However, taking action can be hard and difficult. There can be much inner resistance.
And so you may resort to preaching, as Gandhi says. Or reading and studying endlessly. And feeling like you are moving forward. But getting little or no practical results in real life.
So, to really get where you want to go and to really understand yourself and your world you need to practice. Books can mostly just bring you knowledge. You have to take action and translate that knowledge into results and understanding.
You can check out a few effective tips to overcome this problem in How to Take More Action: 9 Powerful Tips. Or you can move on to the next point for more on the best tip for taking more action that I have found so far.
5. Take care of this moment.
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”
The best way that I have found to overcome the inner resistance that often stops us from taking action is to stay in the present as much as possible and to be accepting.
Why? Well, when you are in the present moment you don’t worry about the next moment that you can’t control anyway. And the resistance to action that comes from you imagining negative future consequences - or reflecting on past failures - of your actions loses its power. And so it becomes easier to both take action and to keep your focus on this moment and perform better.
Have a look at 8 Ways to Return to the Present Moment for tips on how quickly step into the now. And remember that reconnecting with and staying in the now is a mental habit - a sort of muscle - that you grow. Over time it becomes more powerful and makes it easier to slip into the present moment.
6. Everyone is human.
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
When you start to make myths out of people – even though they may have produced extraordinary results – you run the risk of becoming disconnected from them. You can start to feel like you could never achieve similar things that they did because they are so very different. So it’s important to keep in mind that everyone is just a human being no matter who they are.
And I think it’s important to remember that we are all human and prone to make mistakes. Holding people to unreasonable standards will only create more unnecessary conflicts in your world and negativity within you.
It’s also important to remember this to avoid falling into the pretty useless habit of beating yourself up over mistakes that you have made. And instead be able to see with clarity where you went wrong and what you can learn from your mistake. And then try again.
7. Persist.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Be persistent. In time the opposition around you will fade and fall away. And your inner resistance and self-sabotaging tendencies that want to hold you back and keep you like you have always been will grow weaker.
Find what you really like to do. Then you’ll find the inner motivation to keep going, going and going. You can also find a lot of useful tips on how keep your motivation up in How to Get Out of a Motivational Slump and 25 Simple Ways to Motivate Yourself.
One reason Gandhi was so successful with his method of non-violence was because he and his followers were so persistent. They just didn’t give up.
Success or victory will seldom come as quickly as you would have liked it to. I think one of the reasons people don’t get what they want is simply because they give up too soon. The time they think an achievement will require isn’t the same amount of time it usually takes to achieve that goal. This faulty belief partly comes from the world we live in. A world full of magic pill solutions where advertising continually promises us that we can lose a lot of weight or earn a ton of money in just 30 days. You can read more about this in One Big Mistake a Whole Lot of People Make.
Finally, one useful tip to keep your persistence going is to listen to Gandhi’s third quote in this article and keep a sense of humor. It can lighten things up at the toughest of times.
8. See the good in people and help them.
“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.”
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
There is pretty much always something good in people. And things that may not be so good. But you can choose what things to focus on. And if you want improvement then focusing on the good in people is a useful choice. It also makes life easier for you as your world and relationships become more pleasant and positive.
And when you see the good in people it becomes easier to motivate yourself to be of service to them. By being of service to other people, by giving them value you not only make their lives better. Over time you tend to get what you give. And the people you help may feel more inclined to help other people. And so you, together, create an upward spiral of positive change that grows and becomes stronger.
By strengthening your social skills you can become a more influential person and make this upward spiral even stronger. A few articles that may provide you with useful advice in that department are Do You Make These 10 Mistakes in a Conversation? and Dale Carnegie’s Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills. Or you can just move on to the next tip.
9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
I think that one of the best tips for improving your social skills is to behave in a congruent manner and communicate in an authentic way. People seem to really like authentic communication. And there is much inner enjoyment to be found when your thoughts, words and actions are aligned. You feel powerful and good about yourself.
When words and thoughts are aligned then that shows through in your communication. Because now you have your voice tonality and body language – some say they are over 90 percent of communication – in alignment with your words.
With these channels in alignment people tend to really listen to what you’re saying. You are communicating without incongruency, mixed messages or perhaps a sort of phoniness.
Also, if your actions aren’t in alignment with what you’re communicating then you start to hurt your own belief in what you can do. And other people’s belief in you too.
10. Continue to grow and evolve.
”Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”
You can pretty much always improve your skills, habits or re-evaluate your evaluations. You can gain deeper understanding of yourself and the world.
Sure, you may look inconsistent or like you don’t know what you are doing from time to time. You may have trouble to act congruently or to communicate authentically. But if you don’t then you will, as Gandhi says, drive yourself into a false position. A place where you try to uphold or cling to your old views to appear consistent while you realise within that something is wrong. It’s not a fun place to be. To choose to grow and evolve is a happier and more useful path to take.
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Good article. All these tips are practical suggestions to live a better life. Basically it’s up to us.
Great post, I agree. For change to work one must not try to change the world around them, instead change yourself and the world around you will change. This is something of great enlightenment, and more people should pursue this mindset as many positive things can be achieved with it.
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What a beautiful and inspirational post this was. Thank you so much for sharing Gandhi’s wisdom with us today.
It’s important to be reminded about Gandhi’s philosophies… but more important to implement them in our own life.
Jeanne May
http://www.goalsnaspirations.com
It was very nice to me. thank you for good articles..
I have checked your new articles and been following what you said in everyday. good luck to you
Great post! I think of Gandhi more as philosopher than as politician. All the points here are so important, and we haven’t caught up with him much . . . For example, America as a nation still thinks it is fine to retaliate and thus brings it down to nasty warfare. . .
And yes, I am aware I need to start within myself.
Thanks! I needed that.
Mahatma Gandhi was obviously one of the greatest people of our time, but perhaps I would add to this list that we could usefully focus on creating positivity, rather than eliminating negativity.
Don’t concern yourself too much with what is wrong with yourself or the world, but rather focus on what is already good, and how things can be improved.
This is exactly the post I needed today, thanks!
Andrea
It is great to remember Mahatma Gandhi who proved that Non Violence is the best weapon to achieve goals.
Thank you, for investing yourself to developing this website. I need to speak to a group of young people and this is such great information, universal principles, expressed in a clear and organized manner.
Great articel, thanks for sharing.
Ryan
Thank you so much , this post is really useful for me
and i’m sure it will be heiping me a lots .
Yes, this is a superb post. After reading the first item, I was already to leave a comment that “Change Yourself” is the key, above all. But then I read the “You are in control” item, which of course is the most important of all. And then I read about “Forgive and let it go”, which is arguably even more important…and so it goes.
Great post, great blog. I am thankful for being able to have found your site. It is definitely one of the more content and substance driven personal development blogs out there.
Keep up the great work! I look forward to your continued posts.
I agree with the long list of people above. Thank you for the article. I’m a big fan of mahatma Ghandi. His wisdom (about self-change) helped me out quite a lot in the past years, and today, through this article, also through some tough times. So thank you! -Bartjan
These words brought tears to my eyes.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
I just hope I can remember these words when it comes time to face the one I must forgive.
Mahatma Gandhi for President 2008. ;-D
Real forgiveness is granted when you can look at someone who has wronged you and simply smile, and watch as the sharks with laser beams have their way.
Creating real positivity and not eliminating negativity is about ionization.
Remaking yourself while ignoring the needs of the rest of the world to be remade is to invest all your efforts in something that will die soon.
You could be in control of your mind, and eliminate all emotional pain and anger and suffering. It’s simple if you think about it. It’s the physical pain and suffering that they don’t answer to that the Tibetans and Bhurmese need to learn how to resolve.
The English took issue to hitting Indian guys repeatedly all day. The Chinese and Myanmar tyrants could go on for decades starving, raping and slaughtering these people. Find a different way.
And my favorite quote of all time
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always”
Words of wisdom that can solve a lot issues the world over, but its is a matter of shame that the country which Mahatma Gandhi liberated with these principles now pins it hope on nukes and ballistic missiles…
How much better would our world be if we would only follow such simple advice.
Truly inspirational. I’m printing these out and putting them on the back of my door where I can see them every morning.
Thanks for cheering up… this really helps and inspires!
This is extraordinary.. Thanks a lot..
Good post.
Just today I was trying to explain some of these very concepts to my friend… (I love coincidences;)
She was at work when she sent me a text complaining of a rude customer, calling him an a$$. I knew the individual that she was refering to, and yes, he can be a very difficult person to deal with but who isn’t every now and again.
I quickly reminded her of this with the wisecrack response, “Comared to you, miss perfect?”
“I never said i was perfect,” she screamed back.
And of course she isn’t. No one is
I went on to point out that we all need to be less critical of others. If we stop judging others we might be able to see them differently (ie. with compassion) which would allow us to treat them differently (ie. with respect) and ultimatelty that may change how the other person treats us.
We all feed off other people’s emotions. Even if our attitude isn’t enough to get them to change at least we make the effort to stop their attitudes from effecting us. When we get frustrated with others it only serves to empower their negativity…
Again, good post.
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
Great inspiration. Very position. It works if it gets applied everyday. If we read and forget, its like we never read it at all.
2. You are in control.
I try to follow it whenever I can. But again it is not an easy task convincing yourself that you are in control.
Excellent post!! I love the quote “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Thanks for this excellent post.
I heard this quote “on change” last night at regional outstanding scholar award night at Sac. State.
I started thinking. And today I heard on KFBK. Graet
Gandhi did have some saint like qualities, but above all he was one hell of a politician, what i mean by that he was an extremely smart person and keen sense of human psychology. Gandhi himself said that he would not be practicing his method of non-violent protests and civil disobedient movement if someone like hitler were ruling India instead of the british. He knew that the british had free press and the british folks had a sense of decency, His aim besides uniting the indians was to put pressure on the british public, who in turn applied pressure on their government to leave India.
I Strongly believe, if Gandhi were alive today and he resided in Burma, He would be leading an armed rebellion against the dictatorship. The reason I am saying this is becasue during the WW2, Gandhi supported the british against the Germans.
Perhaps many people don’t know Gandhi never assumed any official post - he was an unofficial hero. I hope this could be a lesson for current age politicians fighting like dogs for the seat. Though we like all of Gandhi’s thoughts, the number of people who violate them is increasing, sadly. I really wish we could do something to adopt these principles not only on a personal basis, but on a more widespread scale. Including these thoughts in school books, publishing them in newspapers, discussing them on TV, (insert your idea here).
This is beautiful and enlighting. I’ve translated into Thai to help spreading these important messages across the world. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Sadly Mohandas Gandhi did not apply his own advices fully within his own family, especially to his eldest son, Harilal Gandhi. To liberate India from the British, Mohandas Gandhi sacrificed his family stability for it. It also affected his wife, Kasturba Gandhi and his other son’s, Manilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi and Devdas Gandhi.
Now do not get me wrong. What Gandhi did was spectacular and way beyond what any human could have done. He did something that generations to come will relish and learn from. He has changed how people think and approach things. But the question comes, at what cost?
Ever great man/woman that accomplishes and brings change in this world has to sacrifice something and in Gandhi’s case, it was his family.
EXCELLENT POST!!!…
…if we can strive to achieve this daily, then all the world around us will be great…
Word straight up.
Simon,
India does not pin its hopes on nukes and ballistic missiles but on the millions of energetic youth willing to make a better world. India is a country in its entire history has never attacked any other country first. However, a country being exposed to terrorist attacks and being placed in a disturbed environment has to protect its people and so believes that ‘Strength respects Strength’. When the world is ready for disarmament, India will definitely take the lead. It will always nurtures and values Gandhian principles.
I am proud of i am an indian because gandhi is our indian and he is inspiring to the world , what he thinks and what he guess and what he teach everything is correct,
we should change our self and the surroundings and the nation,
every thing what u think
“be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
only one thing i want to say to the world be the change why con’t all the countries lives without poverty
i have a plan that we can change the world and living style
Excellent! I have always admired Gandhi. I intend to return to this many time.
SURE WONDERFUL IT IS
This are one of the nice ,building words.i will promote this by sharing with my fellow Tanzanian’s in order to change some individual behaviuors for a bright future of the world with plenty of hormoney.
BM has stated: “I Strongly believe, if Gandhi were alive today and he resided in Burma, He would be leading an armed rebellion against the dictatorship.” The answer has been provided by Gandhiji himself in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (available at http://hometown.aol.com/jajnsn/index.html) Gandhiji has explained his view in the introductory chapter (Anasakti Yoga); relevant extracts are given below:
9. The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility. He has made the victors shed tears of sorrow and repentance, and has left them nothing but a legacy of miseries.
10. In this great work the Gita is the crown. Its second chapter, instead of teaching the rules of physical warfare, tells us how a perfected man is to be known. In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare. Its whole design is inconsistent with the rules of conduct governing the relations between warring parties.
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27. Let it be granted, that according to the letter of the Gita it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. But after forty years’ unremitting endeavor fully to enforce the teaching of the Gita in my own life, I have in all humility felt that perfect renunciation is impossible without perfect observance of ahimsa in every shape and form.
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The world would be a nicer place if everyone just gave a little thought to the 10 items listed here.
Fantastic tips on how to become the change you wish to see in the world.
Rhonda
http://www.inspirationforchange.com
I read this the very morning that I have arranged to commit myself to campaigning for the preservation of the “wilderness” that remains in Australia. Sadly Australia has a shocking record for the destruction of the natural habitat that has led to the extinction of native species.
We now face the possibility of the extinction of Humanity in the manner that we mis-manage our natural rescources.
Gandhi is an inspiration in that he managed to motivate a many people to facilitate change for the better.
Sadly Ravi K on his post May 14th seems to have missed the point! to quote Gandhi : “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
Gandhi will continue to be an inspiration for me and many generations to come. Ghandi must have the final word here!
“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.”
Thank you soooooooooooooo much for sharing this with me today.
I was badly in need of such words.
Thanks a lot for sharing such a valuable ideas.
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
Yes….dear friends, let’s try to do what we CAN do using our maximum potentials. THEN THE WORLD BECOME SO NICE TO ALL
Simon,
What Bharathi wrote was right. You will never know what India is suffering (Bomb blast, tettor attacks) by leading lavish life in western world. Your eyes can see only the terror attacks on US, UK etc. Our nukes are for our protection from Pak, China. India can finish up Pakistan in a minute, but will not do that, as Bharati told, India will never use Nukes first. It is Pak and China sitting on its head and eating it. India is following Gandhi “Forgive and let it go. (Bombs, terrorism etc.)” but is has also followed “Change yourself (nukes)”. By the way, do u know how many Nukes US, Russia, China has????, far more than India.
Do reply Simon, I am waiting. Do update yourseft on India’s current affairs and news.
About Gandhi’s philosophy, It is not for weaker people, you need to be strong from inside.
Please read this book “My experiment with truth - Mahatma Gandhi”
Very inspiring words. If we could follow at least half of it world would have been a much better place.
Inspirational and tower of strength to lost souls.
Really great tips for life………gandhi jee is realy great man.
and who have ….
Knowledge,skill,attitude.
it makes mahatma gandhi.
Very good and nice blog to read knowing that you dedicate it to positive thinking. A optimistic blog wins hands down anytime compared to a how-i-live-and-what-i-had-for-dinner-blog. Keep up the good job.
I think people often forget that Gandhi, like Martin Luther King, Jr., who used his methods, only succeeded because of an outside world that was paying attention. His methods are meant to demonstrate oppressive conditions and shame the oppressors in the eyes of the rest of the society or the world. So it’s great to follow his nonviolent approach, but it only works when there are others outside the system to appeal to for support. If people forget that, Gandhi’s principles and how they work can be pretty misunderstood and oversimplified.
One of my favorites that I live by:
“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life”
This always reminds me that there are those out there that will lie to your face and be fine with it. This is my mantra and I thought it would fit nicely in with the rest above.
Great post!
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
I suspect that Gandhiji will not be a hit among most diggers after this considering their whoring of quate like “I’ve lost all faith in humanity.” line in every damn thread about some guy killing or raping or locking up another person. But then, most diggers ARE hunting for high digg count, so posting that overused melodramatic line everywhere is the best way to win that theoretical moolah.
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Thank you for this great post!! =)
Gandhi lived a life of a great person. I have realised that you gain nothing by being bad to other people.
The Point i love most is point 2 > ” I am in control” nobody can hurt me without my permission. we have the right to respond to situation not as the community wants us to react but the way we choose to react. I like this man Ghandi.
Thanks for that! That is so inspirational and just what I needed right now.
motivation is for those who listen like me.i now know what to do and what to say to my word.thanx for this fruitful words
thanx il read this again when im a bit down or need som inspiration…peace from ireland
Someone wrote a comment saying it should be creating positivity instead of eliminating negativity. I have to disagree with that 100%. I think we all know how to create positivity but the negativity will always be there, and if you don’t start looking how your negative on yourself and where you slam yourself the most then you won’t know to start thinking positive in that area. I thought it was a perfect contribution to the 10 fundamentals, great article!
Thanks for the great post.
Reading about Gandhi makes me believe in myself and humanity. I guess I should start everyday by reading somethine like this.
Thanks again
Carolin
WOW. This is exactly what I needed to see. I have not been focusing on the true issue of my circumstance, me… Thank you, great post.
B
Simple rules of life that can make a world of a difference. I completely understand and agree with everything this article supports. Keep on spreading the love…
Thanks a lot for writing this! Truly inspiring.
i dont think there is any as good as this. I wish God could creat many more Ghandis. Thank you Daily Good
According to me the writer seems not to get the depth of Gandhi at all.
Hendrik Edberg refers to changing one’s thoughts.
Gandhi refers not to thought but to being the change.
My view: Changing thoughts without changing who changes the thoughts, from what place or motivation the changer is coming, is just moving around the furniture, not changing the foundation.
it is still trying to change from the outside in. Thoughts are still outside what you really are, you know that!
Hendrik often argues that following his interpretation will make life easier and more successful and others will listen to you more etc.
My view: This is to me still perpetuating the “ego” , personal self, or what ever is that we identify with instead of our true self.
Being authentic for any other reason than that it is the Truth, the only reality, is still not being authentic. Any pressure and you and me, we revert back to our assumed identity, safe and untrue as it may be.
i remember that Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club (the movie) wanted to fight Gandhi.
i think you dont know the flipside of gandhi’s life.
>he caused the deaths of some great people.
>he supported the ‘cast system’ which suppressed the people economically and socially.
>he is not of indian origin and he belongs to a race which introduced “cast system”.
and finally,
Be careful with media,writers…etc
Most of things known to be true are not true in reality.
History is manipulated by writers ….etc
Try to find out the truth and spread it.
yoursfaithfully
A philanthropist
I think it is a good article and am thinking of using it during talks with youth. However would you check up the quotes, I think one of them at least belong to Norman Vincent Peale.
If only more politicians today lived by these words. If only more PEOPLE lived by them. Gandhi also believed that good would always triumph over evil; I hope he is proven correct.
Believe in Humanity…..
In the context of modern scentific discoveries about the seer and the seen, the views expressed reflect just what goes on in your mind when you are reading these quotes,
and what you want to see in them you do,
if you are string and happy, then you take them positively,
so most people responding positively had the yearning to see positive, and that spark of positivity in them,
those who did not, i will only wish them well,
and hope that they can soon respond positively,
Truth is beautiful, even when it is ugly, for it is its integrity that elevates,
Who but Gandhiji could have written about Truth so well as in “My experiments with truth” ??
he realized his Niravana in Truth.
I stand by all Gandhi thought and wrote for the best of mankind. i try to follow his examples as far as i can.
thumbs up for this write-up that has set the blog going.
:-)
Great post and some of the comments here really got me thinking! Thanks for the inspiration!
Evelyn
This wonderful post of yours has brought tears to my eyes and I really want to print it and read it everyday in the morning and hopefully that will cleanse my soul and make me a better and useful and productive human being. Keep up your excellent work. It is sad that a westerner should so proudly show these views of Gandhiji to the world which several Indian writers, speakers or public figures and celebrities are not doing. However let us hope for the best and look for the best in everything as Gandhiji so rightly said in all his wisdom.
What a great thoughts! They are all sensible and practical if people care to make a better world.
Thanks.
good article . i had a topic ‘relevancy of gandhi in modern india’ for a declamation. it helped me alot
Thank you
Gandhi’s words have pure resonance that reminds me - I am not my thoughts or body. Only a second lapses between forgetting and remembering; yet, with remembering there is complete reorientation. The world is reborn each time I am reborn out of the mental into Source.
And while I often look outward with criticism in order to shore up this mental identity, he points to the truth as always present and already complete in itself, not needing shoring up.
Forgiveness is not about the ‘bad’ things people do, it’s about remembering that we all create suffering when we forget who we really are, when we separate ourselves. No matter how well intended, outcomes from this separation will likely cause more problems than they solve.
The wisdom of Gandhi reminds me that focusing outside for answers doesn’t work. With gratitude. L
Gandhi the Great!
I change the life from this moment..Great and Excellent
I read this today morning and it really helped me calm down.
Yes, gandhi never practiced realpolitik but brought out the best in men….. in huge numbers…by sheer inspiration…..dreams of freedom and then the dream came true.
It is also sad that Gandhi was perhaps the first political leader in the modern era to be assassinated by religious fanatics.
Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated on the very day every year as the birthday of Mahatma
Gandhi, Father of India.In his autobiography My experiments with Truth Gandhi
recalls that his childhood and teen age years were characterized by education in a
local school, marriage to Kasturba at the age of 13 and an intrinsic love for ‘truth’
and ‘duty’.Gandhi Jayanti is national holiday celebrated in India to mark the occasion
of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the “Father of the Nation”.Send free Ecard to your
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