@lukeburgis Michael Meade, as corollary: “To the ontologically lost male, peace is boring.” Nietzsche: “In time of peace, the warlike person attacks himself.” And N. O. Brown: “The thing then, is not to abolish war, but to find the true war.”
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Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? Can we smile at what we have not smiled at for years? Can we give ourselves away to those who need us? Can we speak our truth without needing to be right and accept the vagaries of life now—without needing the entire rest of the world to swaddle us beyond any human justification for expecting it? Can we talk to people decently and allow them to talk to us? First, we must face what smalless is. Joan Chittister
@antoniogm “Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.” - Gandhi. One doesn’t ‘abjure’ violence, one suffers and transmutes it, ending the cycle of violence and retaliation in the unequivocally supernatural locus of personal, earthly and cosmic experience.
