“God is not a power residing in the clouds. God is an unseen power residing within us, and nearer to us than fingernails to the flesh.” ~ Gandhi, Truth is God, p. 19

In speaking thus of the radical externalization of “God” that had come to characterize most religious thinking in the West, and offering a correction that was still a bit more alive in India, orients us to the most important discovery Gandhi made and we must make: that God/Truth/Ahimsa are (or rather is) within us. No one and nothing can take it away from us—except our own indifference. And no one can long withstand it when we overcome our indifference, make that great discovery, and put it to use. Only one thing must be added: often we make the discovery by putting it to use.

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