"All things are our relatives; what we do……" — Black Elk
"All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One."
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75 Quotes by Black Elk
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Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching…
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Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a…
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree;…
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We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit…
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the…
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The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a…
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all…
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The…
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Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in…
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But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are…
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More Ahimsa Quotes
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Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all…
— Unknown Author
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He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on…
— Kevin Martin
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Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be…
— Nathaniel Altman
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Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is no virtue higher than non-injury.
— Swami Vivekananda
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These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child;…
— Swami Vivekananda
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