Chubmeister 5000

Active nonviolence calls us:

1. To learn to recognize and respect “the sacred” in every person, including in ourselves, and in every piece of Creation....


2. To accept oneself deeply, “who I am” with all my gifts and richness, with all my limitations, errors, failings and weaknesses, and to realize that I am accepted by God....


3. To recognize that what I

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I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and... See more

Discomfort is the price of intimacy. Though what I feel for you is simple and pure, you are not. You are complicated in the way I am complicated. But I can’t and won’t reject your complexity.