“Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi — samadhi means fixing the mind on God — he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world.”
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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
“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“I learnt the lesson on non-violence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her, and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
“If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.”
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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
