“The spinning wheel enables us to identify ourselves with crores. The millionaires imagine that money can bring them anything in the world. But it is not so.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, October 13, 1946 Money may buy us things, but it can never buy us love. Therefore, it can never satisfy us. The spinning wheel for… read more
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Our Minds on Restorative Justice Daily Metta
In this discussion about Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler gives some examples about the way that restorative justice begins in our minds. He emphasizes that what we tell ourselves about ourselves matters more than we know. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched… read more
Movement Discipline: Daily Metta
“‘If you had hurt an Englishman,’ said Jan Smuts, ‘I would have shot you, even deported your people. As it is, I would have put you in prison and tried to subdue you and your people in every way. But how long can I go on like this when you do not retaliate?’” ~ Gandhi,… read more
Ill-will: Daily Metta
“I may not harbor ill-will even against a Dyer. I regard ill-will as beneath the dignity of man.” ~ Gandhi, Young India, September 12, 1929 How often do we hear the insight that Gandhi is offering us? Ill-will, he maintains, is not worthy of human beings; yet the media and our culture generally are intent… read more
Deepest Nature: Daily Metta
“And if we go deeply into the matter, we shall come across men in every walk of life who lead dedicated lives. No doubt these sacrificers obtain their livelihood by their work. But their livelihood is not their objective, but only a by-product of their vocation. . .” ~ Gandhi, From Yeravda Mandir, pp. 57-60… read more
Civilization: Daily Metta
“Formerly, when people wanted to fight with one another, they measured between them their bodily strength; now, it is possible to take away thousands of lives by one man working behind a gun from a hill. This is civilization. (. . .) This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it… read more
Civil Disobedience: Daily Metta
“So is the capacity for civil disobedience acquired after one has disciplined oneself in complete and voluntary obedience of the laws of the land.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, March 17, 1946 Civil disobedience is a conscious and strategic form of non-cooperation with an unjust law, followed in a civil and nonviolent manner. Gandhi contrasts it with… read more
Eyes on the Prize: Your Daily Metta Weekend Video!
Here, Michael Nagler discusses some successful ways that people around the world have instituted restorative justice. We need to “keep our eyes on the prize,” he tells us, by seeing the good hidden in the heart of every person. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director,… read more
Real Revolution: Daily Metta
“Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of society and in the end makes itself irresistible. Violence interrupts the process and prolongs the real revolution of the whole social structure.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, March, 31, 1946 It was true for Gandhi’s time and it is true for… read more
Immense Love: Daily Metta
“If it is allowed for some that the practice of love is possible, it is arrogance not to allow even the possibility of its practice in all the others.” ~ Gandhi, Harijan, September 26, 1936 While we never cling to them, there are certainly fruits associated with a reverential and circumspect practice of nonviolence, or… read more
