True pacifism is anything but passive. As with any other Right Action, it’s not what you do, but how you do it that matters … People have been aggressively protesting for thousands of years and effectuated no lasting change. Have militant feminists really softened the stance of even one hard-line misogynist? Empirically not. Yes, laws […]
As far as money and “survival” are concerned, I have chosen to work out this challenge by never accepting any money for myself — ever. I simply go about offering to DO Good for others, and then refuse any payment for my services. People are so shocked by this (and so innately Good-Hearted) that I […]
Being a powerful “Force for Good” does not require us to do anything magnanimous or amazing. We don’t have to “save the world” or lead a civil rights march on Selma or liberate India from tyranny to change others’ lives for the better … In our current society — one that is steeped in fear […]
“The morning’s sunrise burned bright … blinding by itself; so bright I could hardly see the traffic lights change color. Then the Sun hid briefly behind the clouds, and behind those mild, uncertain pillows of gray, it took on a milder tone — gently & selflessly giving us all it’s light and warmth anyway; its […]
A forest frehly bedecked with snow is almost irresistable in its Beauty. And yet, it is a place that must be experienced to be known — that must be traversed, and traversed with deep reverence. Well, the inner worlds of every enemy is just as magical; just as filled with hopes and fears and joys […]
“To live means to be creative, and to be creative means to be in love with life. You can be this kind of creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance the Beauty of something nearby; you want to bring a little more music to a relationship, a little more poetry […]
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