Being Peace, Making Peace: Weekly Summary
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Being Peace, Making Peace: Weekly Summary
Something happens when we let our whole identity as a change-maker die into something deeper. It's not about becoming a better activist or finding a more effective way to fight what's wrong. It's about stepping entirely off that game board of separation and discovering that there's a vastly different way of moving in the world—one that comes from t... See more
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we have to do a substantial amount of spiritual training and develop a basic store of the inner resources of wisdom, compassion, and mindfulness before we enter the fray and take up the exhausting and the always dangerous work of peacemaking and Kindom-building.
Paul F. Knitter • Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
“So if we are going to find lasting solutions to difficult conflicts or external wars we find ourselves in,” Yusuf said, “we first need to find our way out of the internal wars that are poisoning our thoughts, feelings, and attitudes toward others. If we can’t put an end to the violence within us, there is no hope for putting an end to the violence
... See moreThe Arbinger Institute • The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
Through meditation and inner transformation, we can learn to make our own hearts a place of peace and integrity. Each of us knows how to do this. As Gandhi acknowledged, “I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.” It is our inner nobility and steadiness that we must call on in our personal and collective
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