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my favorite words of wisdom from my favorite hindu

Posted by Shushan (Guest) - Friday, September 3 2004, 8:49:39 (CEST)
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

It is my firm opinion that Europe does not represent the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ’s Christianity.

On The West
"I think it would be a good idea!"
In reply to a reporter's question "What do you think of Western Civilization?"

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

You should be the change in yourself that you want to see in the world.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.

Passive resistance is an all-sided sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used.

I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.

I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.

I don’t know which is the greater task: to decentralize a top-heavy civilization or to prevent an ancient civilization from becoming centralized and top-heavy. In both cases the core of the problem is to discover what constitutes a good civilization, then proclaim it to the people and help them to erect it.

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.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind.

Hate the sin and love the sinner.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

This freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion —human religion— but any number of faiths.

When the missionary of another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes. He does however possess material goods which he promises to those who will come to his fold.

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