In this video, Michael Nagler continues in Chapter Four of Search for a Nonviolent Future, highlighting the importance of recognizing and developing our inner capacity for nonviolence as a true source of power. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as… read more
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Nonviolence is for everyone: Daily Metta Weekend Video!
Who gets to use nonviolence? Everyone. Including those in positions of “worldly authority.” Michael Nagler discusses this sometimes controversial issue from the standpoint of the dynamics of nonviolence and relates it to Gandhi’s ability to “point nonviolence in any direction.” In other words, it defies social constructions and points toward our common humanity. Please add… read more
Violence is No Help: Daily Metta
“I think Tolstoy called [truth force] also soul force or love force and so it is. . . [T]his force is independent of pecuniary or other material assistance; certainly even in its elementary form of physical force or violence.” ~ Gandhi in Indian Opinion, 1914 Occasionally there is something new under the sun. In just… read more
“Civil Existence”–Daily Metta
September 30: “It should be obvious that civil resistance cannot flourish in an atmosphere of violence.” –Gandhi (Harijan, March 18, 1939) Civil resistance is not the full picture of nonviolence in the least. Gandhi knew this, and he maintained that people needed at times to find ways other than disobedience; for example, if you are… read more
