Dawna markova biography of mahatma gandhi

  • I will not die an unlived life.
  • We are what we choose to be.
  • Quotes from and biographical information on Mohandas Gandhi.

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    Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in 1869 to Hindu parents in the state of Gujarat in Western India.  He entered an arranged marriage with Kasturbai Makanji when both were 13 years old.  His family later sent him to London to study law, and in 1891 he was admitted to the Inner Temple, and called to the bar.  In Southern Africa he worked ceaselessly to improve the rights of the immigrant Indians.  It was there that he developed his creed of passive resistance against injustice, satyagraha, meaning truth force, and was frequently jailed as a result of the protests that he led.

    Before he returned to India with his wife and children in 1915, he had radically changed the lives of Indians living in Southern Africa.  Back in India, it was not long before he was taking the lead in the long struggle for independence from Britain.  He never wavered in his unshakable belief in nonviolent protest and religious tolerance.  When Muslim and Hindu compatriots committed

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    I Will Not Die an Unlived Life


    I will not die an unlived life
    I will not live in fear
    of falling or catching fire.
    I choose to inhabit my days,
    to allow my living to open me,
    to make me less afraid,
    more accessible,
    to loosen my heart
    until it becomes a wing,
    a torch, a promise.
    I choose to risk my significance;
    to live so that which came to me as seed
    goes to the next as blossom
    and that which came to me as blossom,
    goes on as fruit.

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    The poem is a candle that my soul holds out to me, requesting I find a way to remember what it is to live a life with passion, on purpose. There is only enough light to take the journey step by step, but that is all any of us really needs. [...]

    When you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive. This requires letting go of everything that is inauthentic. But how can you even know your truth unless you slow down, in your own quiet company?

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    We Are What We Choose to Be

    On rare and precious moments, someone will tell me about when he used to play the saxophone or when she used to dream about opening a halfway house for abused women or when he thought he could mentor boys in the inner city or when she was going to write a book about how she made it through her childhood. And they light up. There is no other way to describe what happens. Their cheeks flush, their bodies become animated, their voices are electric as they speak. For a moment, the clock stops ticking. Then they pause, shake themselves the way a dog does on a hot day after swimming in a cool lake, and they crawl back in their girdle, talk about money and time and reasons why not. "Well, (...) I am not the sort of a individ who could just... inom wouldn't feel like me that way." I watch heart failures as the clock begins to ljud av klocka again.

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