Ghandi
an entire world for all time.
These words are his legacy of wisdom:“You must be the changes you wish to
see in the world.”
Great armies, mighty battles bring
nothing but bloodshed and death.
He knew change could not be forced,
but should be gently coaxed.
No mighty general astride a horse,
Gandhi became a father to a nation,
spinning cloth for clothing to wear,
raking latrines in the Ashram.
He became the change he wanted
to see in the world.
"You must be the changes you wish to see in the world."
Ghandi's gentle words require no room for hypocrisy in the human heart ... So many wonder what is wrong with the world today, and seek to repair it with politics, religion, and war, when the only problem with the world today is the human heart ... Politics, religion, or War will not, have proven steadfastly in pain, suffering, bloodshed,, and death, that this means of attempting to change the human heart does not work, has never worked, and shall never work ... As Ghandi so eloquently stated, and I am paraphrasing and interpreting his basic meaning: "The only one who can change your heart is you, and when your heart changes, the world around you will begin to change as well ..."
ReplyDeleteExcellent poem ...
Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn
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