To do what we think
Those who knew the great Mahatma Gandhi all admired his inner calm and peace. How did he achieve this? By doing at all times what he thought right; not what he thought expedient, or popular, or safe.
Thus he was a happy and integrated person, and was able to engage in peaceful dialogue with others, even with his enemies. He took words and ideas very seriously. If he thought a moral precept was right, he first of all lived it, and then preached it.
At the root of innumerable wrongs in our world is the discrepancy between word and deed. It is the weakness of churches, parties, and persons. It gives peoples and institutions split personalities. This was the chief fault Jesus Christ found with the Pharisees: ‘They do not practice what they preach’.
There can be no happiness for us, as long as the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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