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Sun, Mar 08 12:23 PM

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We’ve all come across the quotes in Tools and I am amazed that so many significant people have written about living a better or more successful life. So, besides your arm disintegrating into a black mass of goo (Plague), the times havent changed all that much. :) 

 

So I picked up Ghandis autobiography, after reading some of his quotes in Tools and elsewhere. Well his life reads like a Tools course... he made decisions during his life to spend less, eat healthy, exercise. He made mistakes in his life that led to his making new choices to live by. Ghandi had an incredible will of spirit, he saw his mistake and remedies it with his law. He lived by this of his own power and could not be swayed. I read that a friend said to him that he could not survive in England if he did not eat meat. His friend had genuine concern, and no matter what he could not change Ghandis mind. This was at first a promise to his mother, but soon became an active decision, after he took up with a vegetarian society, read the benefits and understood (for himself) the reasons why he needed to live this way. His first belief was that India needed to become meat eaters in order to become a powerful nation, but this was not so later on.

 

Fascinating to me his matter of factness, and the honest writing in his autobiography. 

Peace.

Mike 

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Lesons from history

It is amazing what we all have to learn from people that have come before us. I am hopeful that we all take lessons of love and growth to heart and apply them to our lives today.

 

Change is possible and achievable.

 

Live, Love and Laugh,

 

Otter

lunagolden lunagolden:

but he too had some major hidden secrets

mike

 

i agree entirely with you - Ghandi was indeed an inspiration and a man with enviable qualities - but i understand that he had his own blind spots that were never addressed (relating to his relationship with his wife).  

 

i dont raise this to denigrate what is good about him, but rather to point out that all indviduals have lies that they tell to themselves and that can poison parts of their lives if they dont face up to them

 

as a vegetarian myself, i can tell you it is easier not eating meat than facing my own demons from time to time.

 

the ideal - of course - is to do both

 

hope you and yours are well

 

lg