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Gandhi On Living In Community and Farming #CésarChávezDay

–by Mahatma Gandhi  (Mar 31, 2017) Ashram life at Phoenix began when Gandhi, wining up Tolstoy Farm in 1912, moved there. Here are some excerpts from some letters he had written regarding community life and farming: “There is no antidote to calamity … Continue reading

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Self-Governance and World Community

–by Mahatma Gandhi  (Mar 16, 2017) Gandhi continuously stressed the importance of self-governance, specially at the personal level. That’s why when a journalist asked him: “Do you prefer English people as governing race to other races?”, he replied: “I have no choice … Continue reading

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Earth Guardian

–by Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh Martínez   When other kids were experiencing the travails of first grade, 6-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez was concerned about threats to the World’s ecosystem. Martínez, now 14, is the youth director of the environmental organization Earth Guardians and one of the youngest people to speak … Continue reading

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El Amor Materno de un Hombre / A Man’s Motherly Love

–por Vinoba Bhave (Oct 3, 2014) [English below] “Aprendí la lección de noviolencia de mi esposa cuando traté de doblegarla a mi voluntad. Su abierta resistencia a mi voluntad, por una parte, y su tranquila sumisión a sufrir mi estupidez, por otra, acabaron por hacer … Continue reading

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El Espíritu de Regalo / The Spirit of Gift

–por Satish Kumar (Sep 04, 2014) [English below] Hemos aprendido mucho de l@s indígenas american@s, de l@s aborígenes australianos, de la gente indígena de la parte del Planeta que llamamos India (adivasis) y de los bosquimanos de la parte de la Tierra … Continue reading

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The Internal Witness

–by Eknath Easwaran (Oct 04, 2013) In the days when I was attending my village school, some of us boys – my cousins and I and a few of our schoolmates – would occasionally rob a nearby mango tree. Of course, we … Continue reading

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Satyagraha: Disobeying With Great Love

–by Michael Nagler and Mahatma Gandhi (Sep 12, 2013) While the method that Gandhi worked out was not new —he was the first to insist it was ‘as old as the hills’— it fell to him to develop it systematically and apply it on … Continue reading

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