Thought For The Day – Friday 2nd October 2026
“Peace Is The Path.”
Pictured above: The “Non-Violence Sculpture”, or “Knotted Gun Sculpture”, by the Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Today, is “The International Day of Non-Violence”.
This important day is remembered each year on the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
M.K. Gandhi was born, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India, on this date in 1869.
Throughout his life, Mohandas Gandhi embodied and lived his message.
Upstanding for Goodness, Justice, Love, and Truth through Dialogue, Nonviolence, and Peace, M.K. Gandhi stood up to negative prejudice and negative discrimination.
Mohandas Gandhi practiced “Ahimsa”. This is a Sanskrit word, for an ancient Indian principle, which means Nonviolence, non-harming, or the absence of the desire to cause pain to any living being.
Indeed, Mohandas Gandhi effectively said we should be the change we wish, and need, to see:
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change”.
“’An eye for an eye’ leaves the whole world blind”, and “Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong”, said Mohandas Gandhi.
Mohandas Gandhi was a Pacifist, committed to Nonviolence and Peace.
He was a massive inspiration to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior.
Mohandas Gandhi became known as “Mahatma”, a Sanskrit word, which means “great soul” and “great spirit”.
Last Saturday, the 26th of September, was “The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons”.
The United Nations report that an estimated 12,187 nuclear weapons remain in the world today.
In 1945, two atomic, or nuclear, bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, with an estimated 213,000 people killed immediately, and so many affected in years afterwards.
Bun Hashizume, pictured below, was 14, living in Hiroshima when the nuclear bomb was dropped on her city.
This is Bun Hashizume’s story, from the moving “Newsround” documentary, which we regularly show at T.B.S.H.S.: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/33772230
