Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Soul
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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When the ego dies, the soul awakes.
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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
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Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
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The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.
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Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
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Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
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The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
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Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
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A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
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As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
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Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
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In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.
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Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
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Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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