The Age of Miracles

118. It is open to anyone to say that human nature has not been known to rise to such height. But if we have made unexpected progress in physical sciences, why may we do less in the science of the soul?

–H, 14-5-38, 114.

119. In this age of wonders no one will say that a thing or idea is worthless because it is new. To way it is impossible because it is difficult, is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.

–H, 25-8-40, 260.

No room for Unintelligence any where

108. Man alone can worship God with knowledge and understanding. Where devotion to God is void of understanding, there can be no true salvation, and without salvation there can be no true happiness.

GH, I29.

109. Truth and nonviolence are not for the dense. Pursuit of them is bound to result in an all-round growth of the body, mind and heart. If this does not follow, either truth and nonviolence are untrue or we are untrue, and since the former is impossible, the latter will be the only conclusion.

–H, 8-5-37, 98.

110. You must know that a true practice of ahimsa means also in one who practices it the keenest intelligence and wide-awake conscience.

–H, 8-9-40, 274.

111. Swaraj is for the awakened, not for the sleepy and the ignorant.

–H, 28-1-39, 437.

112. In every branch of reform constant study giving one a mastery over one’s subject is necessary. Ignorance is at the root of failures, partial or complete, of al reform movements whose merits are admitted, for every project masquerading under the name of reform is not necessarily worthy of being so designated.

–H, 24-4-37, 84.

113. A handicraft plied merely mechanically can be as cramping to the mind and soul as any other pursuit taken up mechanically. An unintelligent effort is like a corpse from which the spirit has departed.