Bearing with people is the essence of nonviolence. -- Eknath Easwaran
That makes sense to me. Actually, it leads me to wonder if all violence doesn't begin with a single resistant thought. A single resistant thought, not addressed...not by going to the one we are resisting, but by going inside, to the really and truly great emancipator, God, and getting free of our own resistance.
Or, put more beautifully, not to mention succinctly, by Julian of Norwich: And thus I saw when we are all in peace and in love, we find no contrariness, nor no manner of letting through that contrariness which is now in us.
Our happiness, our peace, our joy itself is entirely ours to show and to shower. And still we war.
War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Thank you.
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