N Quotes
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“Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.”
“Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."”
Source: The Best American Poetry 2015
“Non-inflationary economic growth - an increase in the production of goods and services - is structurally necessary for the current money system to exist. That is what drives the relentless conversion of life into money.”
“Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.”
“Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”
“Non-linear means it's hard to solve.”
“Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.”
“Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.”
“Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.”
“Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude. Life goes on, and if we do not participate, life still goes on. If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go, then why not change the attitude? Reshaping attitudes is possible. Awareness is the key initial step.”
“Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!”
“Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.”
Source: The Reality of Prayer
“Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.”
“Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.”
“Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.”
“Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.”
“Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.”
“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much.”
“Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.”
“Non-stop action and a hero to die for!”
“Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.”
“Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
Source: Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought
“Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.”
“Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.”
Source: Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action
“Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.”
“Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.”
“Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?”
“Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who have been involved in bringing about change and see the difference between violence and non-violence are firmly committed to a lifetime of non-violence, not because it is easy or because it is cowardly, but because it is an effective and very powerful way.”
“Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.”
“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”
“Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best”
“Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.”
“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.”
“Non-violence is the article of faith.”
“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.”
“Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using non-violence because they want desperately to bring about some change. Non-violence in action is a very potent force and it can't be stopped. The people who are struggling have the complete say-so. No man-made law, no human ruler, no army can destroy this. There is no way it can be destroyed... And so, if we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will change.”
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
“Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.”
“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”