“Everyone is experiencing nonviolence but since they don’t have a name for it, it doesn’t stick.”
Michael recaps the story on page 43 of Search for a Nonviolent Future, of the woman who stood up to her husband, which illustrates three interesting points about nonviolence: a)there is no name for it that we recognize; b) because of this we cannot build upon and learn from our experiences common though they are; and c) that people often spontaneously practice aspects of nonviolence, in this case, “the power of vulnerability.”
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