http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmotVteHtWQ
"I will allow just one tyrant in my life, the still
small voice within," said
Gandhi.
Dietrich Bonheoffer, the world acclaimed Lutheran minister,
who in the final year of the war was executed by Hitler for making an attempt
on Hitler's life. His writings are a
must study and there are some excellent documentaries on him. I've dedicated a blog to the best excerpts
of his writings I could find. I highly recommend it. He speaks in the most extraordinary way about
the ‘Unviolent SEALs,’ my words not his, the Unviolent ‘Marines,’ my words not
his, for these people – ‘who are those who stand fast?’
Why do they stand?
They’re unwilling to be irrelevant.
They're unwilling to not respond to the needs of history. They're unwilling to be relegated to the
sidelines.
And using Gandhi's words, Bonheoffer didn't, I will, they refuse to kowtow, they refuse to submit
to anything except their own conscience, except for their own heart, except to
their own best understanding of what God, Soul, the Creator-inside, wants of
them. They consider everything, they're
respectful of everything, but always their dictator, always their arbiter is
their heart, their conscience, their soul, the highest, hardest to reach,
uncontrollable, part of themselves.
By way of a not a perfect analogy, who would you expect a great painter to
submit to - the critics, the other artists?
No. The still small voice within,
their muse.
Well, 1000, that must come to the Canadian Embassy, are the
pinnacle of humanity. Who are they going
to listen to, take orders from, direction from... their peers? They have few if any peers, sadly.
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