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Purification Quotes

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.148, Penguin Books India

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation