A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for Mother. The ashram is not anyone's private property. It is the means to provide peace and quietude for the entire world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

The most enchanting experience I had in Ahmedabad when I visited the Gandhi Ashram. I was moved by the information on Indian freedom struggle and there is a sense of tranquility and peace at this Ashram that moved me.

Rashami Desai

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.

Taraka Larson

I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

Frederick Lenz

The ashram is where everyone lives in the same building or on the same grounds. You feel that it's selfish for you to devote your life to one person. You don't just love the one, you love the many also.

Frederick Lenz

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

Gabrielle Bernstein

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

Jim Sarbh

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Meryl Streep

I trekked in the Himalayas, walked up to the Gangotri, and lived in an ashram.

Jim Sarbh

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

Taylor Dane

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

Frederick Lenz

The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.

Naveen Patnaik

I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.

Sophie Dahl

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Steve Jobs

I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.

Frederick Lenz

On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home.

Trevor Hall

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