Vinoba Bhave Quotes

#1. Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Vinoba Bhave

#2. Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower.

Debasish Mridha

#3. In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

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#4. Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

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#5. Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

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#6. A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

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#7. That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

Aryn Kyle

#8. When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

Vinoba Bhave

#9. If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

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#10. We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

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#11. Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

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#12. The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

Vinoba Bhave

#13. When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

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#14. We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

Rodney Brooks

#15. We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Vinoba Bhave

#16. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

#17. Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#18. If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Vinoba Bhave

#19. In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

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#20. The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

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#21. If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

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#22. My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Bill Bryson

#23. All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Vinoba Bhave

#24. In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

Vinoba Bhave

#25. It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

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#26. It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

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#27. Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

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#28. We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

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#29. If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

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#30. If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

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#31. The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Vinoba Bhave