one thing and that one thing is all things -
plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the
sea and spinning planets and the expanding
universe, all bound together by the elastic string
of time.
John Steinbeck And Edward F. Ricketts, Sea of
CortezNon-Harming - Ahimsa
A friend came back after several years in Nepal and
India in 1973 and said of himself, "If I can't do
anything useful, at least I would like to do as little
harm as possible."
I guess you can bring back all sorts of communicable
things from distant parts if you're not careful. I was
infected with the idea of ahimsa right then and there
in my living room, and I have never forgotten the
moment it happened. I had heard it before. The
attitude of non-harming lies at the heart of yoga
practice and of the Hippocratic Oath. It was the
underlying principle of Gandhi's revolution and of his
personal meditation practice. But there was