Tag: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  • Happy Birthday Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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    Today is Ghandi’s birthday.  He would have been 144.  In honor of this auspicious occasion, some timeless Ghandi wisdom: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” “A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.” “An ounce of practice is worth…

  • Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituatlity

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    by Maria Popova “The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” The friction between science and religion stretches from Galileo’s famous letter to today’s leading thinkers. And yet we’re seeing that, for all its capacity for ignorance, religion might have some valuable lessons for secular thought and the two need not be regarded as opposites.…

  • Khadi – An Art That Gives Life

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    Khadi means handspun and handwoven cloth. In 1918 Mahatma Gandhi started his movement for Khadi as a relief program for the poor masses living in India’s villages. Spinning and weaving was elevated to an ideology for self-reliance and self-government. “Every village shall plant and harvest its own raw-materials for yarn, every woman and man shall…