In this episode of Nonviolence Radio, we broadcast a talk by Arno Michaelis from Shomerei Torah, a synagogue in Santa Rosa, California. Arno describes his personal journey beginning with his involvement in white supremacist hate groups to how he managed to turn his life around, and how others like him are capable of doing the… read more
In our first Daily Metta video, Michael discusses the relationship between inner work and culture, two dimensions of the change that will lead to a nonviolent future. Find out why. In this next video, he explains how when we experience anger, we can direct its energy toward nonviolent action. Nonviolent states of mind have real… read more
In today’s Daily Metta video, Michael discusses the story about a Kerala bear from the life of his teacher, Eknath Easwaran, who saw an opportunity for transforming anger into constructive action, and draws out nonviolent lessons from it. Please add your comments below. About Daily Metta Stephanie Van Hook, the Metta Center’s executive director, launched… read more
July 25: “The silent cry goes out daily to help me to remove these weaknesses and imperfections of mine.” –Gandhi (Harijan, June 22, 1935) Nonviolence is like a current of electricity. In order for this power to work at its full capacity, we have to let it pass through us, without getting in its way,… read more
In this wonderful TED talk, Bonnie Bassler (professor of Microbiology at Princeton) enthusiastically tells us that we are human beings, but 99 % bacteria! As she explains the awesome ways that bacteria communicate and work together toward a common goal, one cannot but help to extrapolate notions of how we have inherited the power of… read more
