"Ahimsa is not a policy for the seizure of power. It is a way of transforming relationships so as to bring about a peaceful transfer of power, effected freely and without compulsion by all concerned, because all have come to recognize it as right." -- Thomas Merton
"Bearing with people is the essence of nonviolence. To do this with a feeling of martyrdom, however, is not very helpful; we need to bear with people cheerfully. But this does not mean making ourselves into a doormat....Letting people take undue advantage of us is not helpful for them any more than it is for us." -- Eknath Easwaran
Thank you for protecting my heart from my ego-victory mind which will always seek to top or to stop anything and anybody it feels is resisting it. -- my morning blinding flash of the obvious.
Thank You.
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