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Every week, we feature excerpts by Gandhi that lend insight into his values and personal practices.

Below is a letter Gandhi wrote to a director of Library of the Boys' Work Association, who had requested an autographed photograph of Gandhi to hang on their walls.

On Photographs Of Myself (Mar 03, 1926)

To: Jos. E. Dennison, Esq.
Director
Two Rivers Boys' Work Association
H.P. Hamilton School
Two Rivers, Wisconsin

March 26, 1926

Dear friend,

I have your letter. I regret to have to inform you that I do not keep any photograph of myself. And for many years now I have not even given a sitting to a photographer. There are however photographs sold in the bazaar. They are all snapshots. In my opinion they are all caricatures.

Yours sincerely,
M.K. Gandhi
The Ashram, Sabarmati

Be the Change: Don't look in the mirror for the next week. Consider the question: who am I without my body?