Experience has taught me that silence is a part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Read MoreLord of humility, dwelling in the little pariah hut, help us to search for Thee throughout that fair land watered by Ganges, Brahmaputra and Jamuna. Give us receptiveness, give us open-heartedness, give us Thy humility, give us the ability and willingness to identify ourselves with the masses of India.
Read MoreThe entire religious experience of the American Indian—purification of mind and body, prayer and fasting, a strong personal relationship with God, meditation to learn from the “Great Mystery” its teaching beyond words—describes the spiritual heritage that nourished Mahatma Gandhi perfectly in one word: Yoga, the ideal of union of soul with God and the oneness of Man-God-Nature.
Read More“For I can see that in the midst of death, life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light persists.Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love. He is the Supreme Good."
Read MoreJournalist and author, Vincent Sheean wrote the following description of Gandhi, saying that Gandhiji “was so penetrated with the truth and beauty he felt in the verses of the Sermon that through years of effort he actually became something like a summation of the Beatitudes, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemaker. His reverence for Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount illumined his long struggle and gave him strength for it.”
Read MoreAhimsa, in its subtle power, depends on a cosmic principle — that of the oneness of life. Ahimsa, in its positive form, means the largest love, the greatest charity. When ahimsa becomes all-embracing it transforms everything it touches. There is no limit to its power. Gandhiji understood that power. He made a conscious and constant effort to apply the power of ahimsa in his daily life. Ahimsa is living so as to realize the oneness of life.
Read MoreDuring his prayer meetings, Gandhiji always included verses from the Qur'an Sharif. He would not hold prayer meetings without recitations from the Qur’an. He had a profound admiration for the refined character of the Prophet Muhammad, as a man of faith and action.
Read MoreIn 1935 and into 1936, Howard Thurman undertook what is known as a “Pilgrimage of Friendship” tour in India. It was at the end of this tour that he would meet Mahatma Gandhi in Bardoli, a small town in India’s western state of Gujarat. He also met with Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan and Kshiti Mohan Sen.
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