http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO335RgihqU
You remember the war, violent or Unviolent, that did not
tear apart, families, friends, groups, lovers, organizations, right? Oh, never mind. There's never been such a thing and never
will. So if those things aren't
happening to you, you can be certain that you are not an Unviolent warrior,
that you are not a potent activist.
Similarly, if you are not finding yourself coming together with what you
experience as true family, those who are devoted to the well-being of the
world, every second, every breath, then that too is an indicator to you that
you are not yet a potent activist, a hope for the world of any significance,
because both happen, when you are a hope.
Alice Paul and her sisters in prison. There are no human bonds that are as strong
as the family bonds between such non biologically related people totally
devoted unviolently to the righteous cause.
And which Unviolent war more tore apart biological, and sanctified
marriages then the fight for women's suffrage?
For Gandhi there was a man who was the epitome of the
Unviolent warrior, for me too, the man Jesus. ' If you pick up your cross, if
you pick up the needs of our global neediest and put them on your back, it will
cost you husband, wife, son, daughter, house, farms, fields, but in this life
you will receive a hundredfold. And he
certainly did not mean, fields and farms would be received a hundred fold, he
meant, true family. This iconic
Unviolent warrior, the man Jesus, for Gandhi, for me, for King, for Teresa - 'I
came not to bring peace but to divide with a sword,' to divide within each, the
coward from the courageous, and to temporarily, at least, divide us one from
another - the courageous, those devoted out of universal love to those most in
need, and putting their bodies in the way, and the cowards, our brothers and
sisters all. And unless that division happens, unless those of hearts are
willing to stand apart from their brothers and sisters who are not yet so
blessed, who are not yet so healthy, then the potential creative tension that
could save those who are not yet creatures of heart is withheld, and what could
be more cruel? What could be more
un-loving? What could be more deadly? Nothing.
Life, the heart in charge, standing on the Truth, no matter
what, for the global neediest, for all, is what Jesus devoted his life to and
gave his life for, and same with King, and same with Gandhi. If you are not so standing on the truth, and
in this sickest of all societies truth is what we most hate, well then, you are
neither being pulled apart from your friends, your fellow activists, your
biological family, most important people in your life, and nor are you a hope
for other than the status quo. The
status quo loves that. They'll praise
you, up one side and down the other; unless you’re neither, and just throwing
hopeless tantrums.
In his 20s, roughly, Gandhi and his wife were tremendously
stressed, tremendous, tremendously pulled apart, and probably would have been fully pulled
apart were it not for the customs of the age that husband and wife just did not
separate. But the closeness that they
had, the unity that they had later in their life could never have come about,
had not Gandhi first stood the truth that no man is above his brothers, no
casts were acceptable in India, for no one was it not appropriate to do the
latrines.
'I came not to bring peace but to divide with a sword,' Jesus said.
'If you pick up your cross, [advocacy for, life on the line for our
neediest], and follow me it will cost you husband, wife, son, daughter, houses,
fields, farms, and persecutions, but it will give you a hundredfold [true Family] in this lifetime.' And S. Loving here, his life, his path this
last 13 years is a 100% testament to all of this.
The potent activists were the great healers. In the beginning they divided like a surgeon
divides flesh, and by the end of their process they had brought about mass
healing. For many wounds there's no mass
healing, without a surgical divide, and then the healing begins.
Stand on the truth of what's right for humanity in these
times. It will divide initially, as a
human birth divides initially, within the woman, and then the healing begins,
for a much greater possibility. Be what
the world needs you to be. Pay the
enormous price joyfully, and we just might give a future to the next 2000
generations.
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