- To live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity. The Earth is but ONE country and all the living beings its citizens.
Category Archives: nonviolence
True Integrity As Fidelity To Truth
by Aisha Salem (May 3, 2013) In the turnover from the personal to the impersonal, the clear and truly loving, we face a definite turnover of our very understanding of what integrity is. In the exact same way as the definition of … Continue reading
To All Heart Warriors…
by Georgia Simone (Apr 19, 2013) The truth is, your heart is already and always free. The truth is, that as you rest your attention more and more into the love that you are, prior to all thoughts, emotions, and sensations – the … Continue reading
In The Hearts Of The Farm Workers
–by César Chávez (Apr 04, 2013) In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge nonviolence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation. [...] Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear … Continue reading
The Insanity of Being Perfectly “Sane”
–by Thomas Merton (Mar 29, 2013) One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Otto Adolf Eichmann trial –a Nazi lieutenant colonel who, because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, was given the task of facilitating and managing … Continue reading
Kindness and Rebellion
–by Sharon Salzberg (Mar 15, 2013) A friend of mine, at the end of a retreat, offered a provocative reflection that intrigued and inspired me. After looking intensively at her inner experience for nine days of meditation and seeing many of her … Continue reading
Lifting The Human Spirit
by Carl Sagan (Mar 08, 2013) We had an expansive run in the ’60s and ’70s. You might have thought, as I did then, that our species would be on Mars before the century was over. But instead, we’ve pulled inward. Robots aside, we’ve backed off from … Continue reading
Enoughness & The Poetry of the Forest
–by Vandana Shiva (Feb 15, 2013) Today, at a time of multiple crises intensified by globalization, we need to move away from the paradigm of nature as dead matter. We need to move to an ecological paradigm, and for this, the best … Continue reading
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The Blessing Of the Elephants
–by Michael Meade (Feb 08, 2013) I had been working with young people in Watts, South Central, Los Angeles. We had worked hard to dispel the despair that gathers in certain neighborhoods although it arises from all streets where dreams are deferred. Arriving home, I … Continue reading
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Action to Heal the Nuclear Madness
Art piece by brother Chris Jordan –watch the TED talk about his ARTivism. ‘Unsinkable’ depicts 67,000 mushroom clouds, equal to the number of metric tons of ultra-radioactive uranium/plutonium waste being stored in temporary pools at the 104 nuclear power plants across the [part of the Planet we … Continue reading
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