Each week nonviolence educator, trainer and author Veronica Pelicaric shares a short reflection based on one of the daily nonviolence quotes Pace e Bene sends out to help each of us live the nonviolent life. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or via RSS.
As we prepare for Campaign Nonviolence’s online music festival, it’s worth remembering that music is the great uniter.
In order to envision Martin Luther King’s vision of Beloved Community, we need to think about who it includes.
The first step toward nonviolence is loving yourself and not being ashamed of where you feel broken or wounded.
In a society deeply divided into tribalism, rehumanizing is the first step towards opening communication and forging a way forward together.
Instead of falling into a pattern of tying someone’s actions to their identity, we must learn to see beyond actions.
By listening, we have the chance to learn what it is others need, and how we can live peacefully together, even with things we fear.
We are culturally at a crossroads on matters of race, war and the environment. We can either hide from the issues or we can honor the truth and do what’s right.
Once a person does the work to find out who they truly are, they no longer have to hunt for scraps of feeling important.
As Badshah Khan explained, “satyagraha stands for both the means and the ends, the struggle and the force that is generated in the struggle.”
To repair the human spirit, we must begin by looking to what broke it in the first place: a loss of the sacred and a life reduced to materialism.