SIKHISM: a collection of quotes

Do not cause any being to suffer, and you shall go to your true home with honour.

Don’t you know that your life is decreasing, day and night? Your life is made worthless with greed.

As much as your means allow give charity to the hungry, in every moment be entrenched in the love [colour] of Waheguru.

You kill living beings, and call it a righteous action. Tell me, brother, what would you call an unrighteous action?

The trouble-maker is called a leader, and the liar is seated with honor. O Nanak, the Gurmukhs know that this is justice in the Dark Age of Kali Yuga.

High and low, social class and status - the world wanders, lost in superstition.

We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We befriend woman and our lineages continue because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

If I did not commit any mistakes, O Infinite One, how would You have acquired the name, 'Redeemer of sinners'?

Do not attach your identity to your ego. The world is consumed by ego and arrogance; realize this, lest you will lose your own self as well.

One who is not touched by pleasure, pain, greed, emotional attachment and egotistical pride...is the very image of God.

When the hands and the feet and the body are dirty, water can wash away the dirt. When the clothes are soiled and stained by urine, soap can wash them clean. But when the intellect is stained and polluted by sin, it can only be cleansed by the Love of the Name.

The Divine Light is within everyone; You are that Light. From its brilliancy everything is illuminated. By the Guru’s Teachings, this Divine Light is revealed.

"Some have cruelty in their hearts - they constantly act in cruelty; as they plant, so are the fruits which they eat."

I make wisdom my mother, contentment my father, and truthfulness my brother. These are my best relations.

Suffering is the medicine, and pleasure the disease, because where there is pleasure, there is no desire for God.

Even with the light of a hundred moons and a thousand suns, there would be pitch darkness without the Guru

May Sikhs live with humility and high moral values