“Experience has taught me that it is a mistake hastily to imagine that anything that we cannot understand is necessarily wrong.” ~ Gandhi, from Gandhi’s Dialogue with Christianity, p. 4 (published by Swaraj Peeth)

Gandhi teaches us that approaching life with an open heart and an open mind is not just to make us feel good—it helps us develop our strength, security and nonviolence. If we do not understand something, that does not make it wrong. Simple to say, but much more difficult to uproot from ourselves. If we lived by this single principle day in and day out in all of our relationships, imagine what we might learn. As Gandhi goes on to say, “Some things which I did not understand first have since become as clear as daylight.”

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