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Ahimsa Quote by Black Elk

“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything,…” quote by Black Elk — Download Open image

“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.”

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Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

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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 relative to all that…

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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

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It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.

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“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there.…

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Everything tries to be round.

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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to…

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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing…

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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

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Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

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Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

Vallabha Acharya

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Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced…

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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

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Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of…

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If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to…

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Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will…

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Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

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It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

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Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

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Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

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