SIKHISM: a collection of quotes

Be inspired by the Sikh way of life.

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 

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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.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (p 1288)

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

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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

Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Var Asa, pg. 473

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 

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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.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 

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

Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji

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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.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji

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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.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji

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

Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 

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

Guru Nanak Dev Ji

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

Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji 

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

Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji

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May Sikhs live with humility and high moral values

Guru Gobind Singh Ji (Sikh Ardaas)