Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo

The Essential Gandhi:
An Anthology of his Writings on

his Life, Work, and Ideas

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by Mahatma Gandhi

or Mohandas K. Gandhi
Louis Fisher, Editor

[Items in square brackets are by Tony Mayo.]

{Items in fancy brackets are by the editor, Louis Fisher.}

p. 15 [As a boy, Gandhi confessed a petty theft to his father and was forgiven.] This was for me an object lesson in Ahimsa [Love and Non-Violence]. Then I could read in it nothing more than a father’s love but today I know that it was pure Ahimsa. When such Ahimsa becomes all-embracing it transforms everything it touches. There is no limit to its power.

This sort of sublime forgiveness was not natural to my father. I had thought he would be angry, say hard things and strike his forehead. But he was so wonderfully peaceful and I believe this was due to

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
–Pearl S. Buck

To My Daughters With Love

By Pearl S. Buck

See also Gandhi on service.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

See also Gandhi on impact of minorities.

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Establish the habit of slowing down your responses to questions, to save time and trouble. A simple and effective way to do this is by training yourself to respond to every question with a clarifying question. This gives the questioner a chance to explain why they asked and what they are trying to accomplish. You’ll be surprised how often the quick answer you might have given would not have helped them –or you– at all.

Suppose, for example, you shipped that big report yesterday, just as you had promised. Today the client telephones and asks, “Have you

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