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Power based on love, is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment. I am fascinated by the law of love. It's the philosopher's stone for me.
-Gandhi, Young India, January 8, 1925
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In heartfelt prayer, the worshipers attention is concentrated on the object of worship so much that he is not conscious of anything else besides.
-Gandhi, Ashram Observances In Action
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Fasting cannot be undertaken against an opponent. Fasting can be resorted to only against one's nearest and dearest, and solely for his or her good.
-Gandhi. Young India, September 30, 1926
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Religion is not a thing that is alien to us, but which has to be evolved out of us.
-Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action
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The idea is that every healthy individual should labor enough for his food, and his intellectual faculties should be exercised not in order to earn a living or amass a fortune, but only in the service of mankind.
-Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action
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Non-cooperation is a process of evolution. It has most aptly been described as evolutionary revolution. Gandhi, Young India, February 23, 1921
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I may deliver up my soul with the remembrance of God on my lips.
-Gandhi, Pyarelal, Last Phase, Volume II
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Justice should become cheap and expeditious. Today it is a luxury of the rich. And the joy of the gambler.
-Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 4
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily born, not if they are imposed.
-Gandhi, Mahatma. Volume 3
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Somehow we refuse to believe in the evidence of our senses, that we could not possibly have any attachment for the body without the soul, and we have no evidence whatever that the soul perishes with the body.
-Gandhi. Letter to Meera Behn, May 4, 1933
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Nonviolence Daily is a thought-for-the-day from Gandhi with a short and inspiring commentary from Professor Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence.