The Runt Book

Gandhi's resolve is unequivocal and sans pareil. His philosophies are still as applicable today, and worth considering in our present wars. (A peace brigade vs. a police force...?) His words radiate love for anything living. I thought of the atonement and Christ all throughout the book, and can't help but think Gandhi has a special place at the right hand of God! I love the concepts of satyagraha (truth/love/soul firmness) and ahimsa (lacking any desire to kill or injure anyone, practicing true love toward all living things), and learned a lot about the atonement as I tried to learn of Gandhi's ways. He teaches that our enemies can be respected and loved, but don't have to be conceded to. Contrary to what the human mind might think, it takes more strength and courage to be committed to loving your enemy and nonviolence than it does to fight with anger and hatred.

A few thoughts (of the many) I really love:
*What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
*...the machineries of governments stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another. (Our brothers and sisters are Muslim! We have to think of them as separate from terrorists!)
*If we are to teach real peace in this world...we shall have to begin with children.
*I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.
*The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
*I do not believe...that an individual may gain spiritually while those who surround him suffer. I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him and if one man falls the whole world falls to that extent.