There was a time years ago when I was reading Plato very closely – I was studying at Heidelberg at that time – and had a flash of insight about who Socrates really was. What I saw was not something I could easily share with my fellow students, then or now: that both Socrates and Jesus were at… read more
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“Knowing our limitations”–Daily Metta
March 24: “I have wisdom enough to know my limitations.” –Gandhi (Harijan, 7-23-1938, p. 193) While violence asks us to think of the limitations of others and ourselves as weaknesses, knowledge of our own limitations is a strength in nonviolence, because the discipline of nonviolence, when understood as a broad ‘experiment with truth,’ gives us… read more
