- To live in radical joyous shared servanthood to unify humanity. The Earth is but ONE country and all the living beings its citizens.
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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
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
Posted in ahimsa, anarchism, anarchy, astrobiology, Awaking Oakland, education, meditation, natural philosophy, nonviolence, poetry, satyagraha, science, soulforce, WednesdaysOnFridays
Tagged Agroecology, Bija Vidyapeeth, biomimicry, democracy, Earth Democracy, Earth University, Forest of Purity, forest school, Gandhi, Navdanya, Nobel Prize, nonoviolence, Organic Farming, permaculture, poetry, Rabindranath Tagore, Shantiniketan, Tapovan, The Religion of the Forest, Vandana Shiva, West Bengal, YES! Magazine
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Beyond Symbolism: Servant Leadership
by Collective Intelligence* (Apr 6 , 2012) The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps … Continue reading
Supreme Consideration Is Human
–by Mahatma Gandhi (Sep 16, 2011) What I object to is the “craze” for machinery, not machinery as such. The craze is what they call labor-saving machinery. Men go on “saving labor” till thousands are without work and thrown on … Continue reading
BeLOVED CommUNITY
[From an email sent in January 2009] As we conclude another lap around our magnificent star in our living-organic-spaceship, I’d like to bring to your attention, beloved family, beLOVED commUNITY, how grateful I feel to know you all and to … Continue reading
Posted in ahimsa, anarchy, education, gift-economy, natural philosophy, nonviolence, soulforce, Uncategorized
Tagged abundance, Aung San Suu Kyi, Beloved Community, Buddha, buddhist, catholic, César Chávez, christian, Comandanta Ramona, contemplation, Cosmos, courage, creativity, Dalai Lama, diversity, Eknath Easwaran, Emma Goldman, empathy, Errico Malatesta, faith, forgiveness, Gandhi, generosity, gift-economy, God, Gurdiieff, happiness, inspiration, Jagannathan, Jesus, jew, kindness, Krishnammal, Krishnamurti, Lau-Tzu, Martin Luther King jr, meditation, mind, money, muslim, Patanjali, Paulo Freire, prayer, Prophet Mohammed, psitive thinking, respect, Salvador Ayende, secular, spiritual companionship, spirituality, superhumanize, translation, True-Self, Vinoba Bhave
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The Berkeley Treesit and The Earth Swaraj
The Earth Swaraj: The Independence of the Earth. “The new paradigm is not about putting people in power, but power in people.” Can we have both, old trees and new gyms? Which corporations are benefiting from the construction of … Continue reading
Posted in ahimsa, anarchy, education, fearlessness, noncooperation, nonviolence, satyagraha, soulforce
Tagged abolition of nuclear weapons, ahimsa, Berkeley, bravenough, Earth Swaraj, Free Speech, Gandhi, inspiration, meditation, nonviolence, Nuclear Weapons, privatization, satyagraha, treesit, UC Regents, University of California, yoga
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Slow Down, Slow Food, Slow Science
The Challenge of Education for a New Generation: Converting Swords into Plowshares. Slow Down, Slow Food, Slow Science. “Where ignorance is your master, there is no possibility of peace.”–The XIV Dalai Lama. The scientific contributions of Albert Einstein and Richard … Continue reading
Posted in ahimsa, astrobiology, education, fearlessness, noncooperation, nonviolence, satyagraha, science
Tagged abolition of nuclear weapons, Albert Einstein, Berkeley, bravenough, education, Gandhi, Livermoore, Los Alamos, Manhatan Project, noncooperation, Nuclear Weapons, nukes, Richard Feynman, satyagraha, science, The Great Turning, UC Regents, University of California, University of California Labs, Vinoba Bhave
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Something Revolutionary… what about LIFE?
[An email sent in the era of The Phoenix Coalition, after an old paradigm event where people were not very energized by it because of the broadcast top-down approach.] Subject: Something Revolutionary… what about LIFE? Cooperation + Sharing
Posted in ahimsa, anarchy, ARTivism, education, fearlessness, natural philosophy, noncooperation, nonviolence, satyagraha, science, soulforce, Uncategorized
Tagged activism, Berkeley, Carl Sagan, David Korten, Earth, Earth Community, Eknath Easwaran, Emma Goldman, Gandhi, life, Michael Nagler, Phoenix Coalition, UC Regents, University of California
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