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Today I browsed www.mkgandhi.org. Since my childhood, I have developed a fondness to Gandhi.

This web site is a wonderful remembrance of him. There are volumes of his thoughts and works shared online. One of the works I browsed through today is "The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi" (http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/momindex.htm)

Please find below some of the words of his, that I cherish. You are welcome to visit the website for more. Thanks to his grace through these words and to mkgandhi.org for being a conduit of that grace.

Somehow I am able to draw the noblest in mankind, and that is what enables me to maintain my faith in God and human nature.

Mine is a life full of joy in the midst of incessant work. In not wanting to think of what tomorrow will bring for me, I feel as free as a bird….. The thought that I am ceaselessly and honestly struggling against the requirements of the flesh sustains me.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

I believe in 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). Whether, therefore, I will or not, I must involve in my experiment the whole of my kind. Nor can I do without experiment. Life is but an endless series of experiments.

I have made the frankest admission of my many sins. But I do not carry their burden on my shoulders. If I am journeying Godward, as I feel I am, it is safe with me. For I feel the warmth of the sunshine of His presence.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man, I say to myself so was I once; and in this way, I feel kinship with every one in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

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