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Delegitimizing Violence: Daily Metta

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Working to End Violence Michael Nagler discusses picking up with the work that Martin Luther King, Jr. couldn’t get around to: delegitimizing violence.     About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share the Gandhi’s spiritual wisdom and experiments with nonviolence. This… read more

Dignity + Unity: Daily Metta

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“Dignity is connected with unity.” In today’s Daily Metta, Michael Nagler looks at the key to tackling the rise of hatred, the very root of all violence. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched Daily Metta in 2015 as a way to share the Gandhi’s spiritual wisdom and experiments with… read more

“Our dignity, our unity”–Daily Metta

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“It turns out our dignity is closely linked to our unity.” In today’s Daily Metta, Michael tries to get us to look beyond the surface of hatred toward any particular group to the issue of hatred itself. What causes that and what can we do to challenge it, for the good of everyone?  … read more

“The awareness of violence”–Daily Metta

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“Our age is not the age of violence; it is the age of the awareness of violence.” -Jacques Ellul In today’s Daily Metta, Michael Nagler explores the idea of changing the way we think about nonviolence in order to come up with more useful solutions, drawing from the statement Ellul. Share your questions, comments and reflections below!… read more

“Hard questions, hard answers”–Daily Metta

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“I refuse to believe in the journalistic cliche, ‘meaningless violence.'” Michael Nagler asks us to think more deeply about the causes of violence and encourages us to ask three hard questions. Comment, question, or reflect below!… read more

“The miracle at Gaviotas”–Daily Metta

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“There had been seeds that had been waiting there for maybe thousands of years.” Michael Nagler discusses the seeds of renewal in our own existence, drawing an analogy to the Gaviotan rainforest that sprung from a desert.… read more

“My nonviolence lineage”–Daily Metta

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“I was the shortest kid in Midwood High School” In this Daily Metta, Michael Nagler responds to a question from a friend who wrote in, wanting to hear more about his nonviolence lineage. Comment on this Daily Metta below, and send us your questions!… read more

“Profuse shower of love”–Daily Metta

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December 24: “It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness, likewise only a profuse shower of love overcomes hatred.” –Gandhi (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. XIV, p. 402) In Chapter Four of Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler compares violence to the weather. “The weather,” he says, “is… read more