Nonviolence
Nonviolence is also known as “love in action.” As a constructive power, it’s unleashed when potentially destructive drives like fear or anger are converted into creative equivalents like love and compassion.
Nonviolence, when harnessed systematically and in an experimental, scientific spirit, can be used as a force for realizing greater security, justice, and social unity.
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Nonviolence begins inside of each one of us, and is the greatest power of our human nature. Individuals can affect positive change with or without large groups. Everyone has a role to play.
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By nature, nonviolence has more to do with building up than tearing down. Even when it obstructs some injustice, the goal is to allow some justice to prevail. Often by building what we want, what we don’t want will either stop or be much easier to stop because we’re offering an alternative. This is the most overlooked and possibly strongest power in nonviolence.
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It breaks down into two parts: Satya-Truth, graha-Hold Fast to. This is Truth-force or Love-force. We resist injustice without reproducing it. We obstruct hatred and violence with a firmness rooted in love.
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“Nonviolence is more than putting another person in power. It’s about awakening a different kind of power in people.”
Five Things Everyone Can Do:
Unplug from the commercial mass media and its low image of human nature. There are alternative ways to receive information about current events that do not degrade human nature.
Learn everything you can about nonviolence.
We are mind, body, and spirit. Take up a spiritual practice if you don’t already have one, like meditation or centering practices.
Rehumanize: Be more personal with everyone. Reclaim our common humanity.
Get involved: Find where your gifts meet the needs of the movement and offer what you can give. Share the new story of nonviolence while you are doing this work.
A sustained commitment to nonviolence is often difficult to maintain when confronted with severe repression.
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Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
~Gandhi