Nonviolence Daily
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.
Episodes
365 episodes
Day 365
The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. -Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truthhttps://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily<...
Day 364
Just as preservation of one's own culture does not mean contempt for that of others, but requires assimilation of the best that there may be in all of the other cultures, even so, should be the case with religion. -Gandhi,...
Day 363
I will not go underground. I will not go into shelter. I will come out in the open and let the pilot see I have not a trace of ill will against him.… The longing in our hearts – that he will not come to harm – would reach up to him and his e...
Day 362
The greatest tragedy is a hopeless unwillingness of the villagers to better their lot.-Gandhi January 9, 1937https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily<...
Day 361
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the godliness of human nature.-Gandhi, Truth is Godhttps://www.mettacenter.org/nonvio...
Day 360
Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society, he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppresses egotism. -Gandhi, Young India, March 21, 1929
Day 359
Fortunately for humanity, nonviolence pervades human life and is observed by men without special effort. If we had not born with one another, mankind would have been destroyed long ago. Ahimsa would thus appear to be the law of life, but we ...
Day 358
Thus, the lynching ultimately proved to be a blessing for me, that is, for the cause. It enhanced the prestige of the Indian community in South Africa, made my work easier, and the experience prepared me for the practice of satyagraha. ...
Day 357
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the Kingdom of God within you and on this earth. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Day 356
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles which no power on earth can wipe out.-Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhihttps://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolenced...
Day 355
Not to yield your soul to the conqueror means that you will refuse to do that which your conscience forbids you to do. -Gandhi, August 18, 1940https://ww...
Day 354
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, yet it is the humblest imaginable. -Gandhi, Nonviolence and Social Changehttps://www.mettacenter.org/non...
Day 353
Satyagraha is an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul. -Gandhi, Harijan, February 24, 1946https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedailyMus...
Day 352
Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips but with the heart.-Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhihttps://www.mettacenter.org/non...
Day 351
My presence acted as a check upon petty bickering. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africahttps://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedailyMusic by
Day 350
Every moment of our life should be filled with mental or physical activity but that activity should be sattvika, tending to truth.-Gandhi, From Yervada Mandir...
Day 349
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as humanly possible from violence. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 7
Day 348
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred.-Gandhi, Young India, February 10, 1927https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedailyMus...
Day 347
The highest honor my friends can do me, is to enforce in their own lives the program that I stand for, or to resist me with their utmost if they do not believe in it.-Gandhi, Young India, June 12, 1924
Day 346
There would be no one to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 2https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedailyMusic by...
Day 345
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder actions in ahimsa. -Gandhi, The Mind of Mahatma Gandhihttps://www.mettacenter.org/nonv...
Day 344
The proper way to view the present outburst of violence throughout the world is to recognize that the technique of unconquerable nonviolence of the strong has not been at all fully discovered as yet.-Gandhi. June 9, 1946
Day 343
I address this appeal to you and the hope that our movement may even lead you in the right direction and deflect you from the course, which is bound to end in your moral ruin and the reduction of human beings to robots. -G...