http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghkDIFgJtBA
Dr. King felt alone.
And the potent activists, the insanely humane warrior of Unviolence,
generally feels alone because they're out in front, they're constantly paving
the way. At the same time they are the
least alone people alive because they are the world, they are every creature, as
has been discussed elsewhere. Their
nervous system is in such solidarity, and so united with all creation, that
they are the least alone among us.
But King felt alone.
He felt he was standing alone out in front, and he was. And he just dealt with it. He just kept on. Franz Jagerstadder was the only Austrian, or
the only Austrian in his region, to refuse the enlistment in the Third Reich
and as he as he knew would happen, shortly thereafter he was executed. He stood alone. Stephen Biko in 1977, was brutally
slaughtered in an apartheid prison.
There were people that listened to him at rallies, but he stood
alone. 30 students, instead of their
final exams in Nashville, expecting to die, signed living wills, and then
headed on a bus to beatings, in Mississippi in the Freedom Rides. They stood alone, and presumably would stand
alone as long as they needed to.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister of world-renown in Germany,
population about 50 million or so as I recall, he and a handful of conspirators
stood alone, attempting to assassinate Hitler.
There's no personal price that the heart won't pay. The
potent warrior is a creature of heart.
If there's a price you won't pay you are not a creature of heart, our
brother or sister to all. But you are
not a potent activist, you are not an INSHE warrior, and you need to become
one; for the Joy of it, for the Hope of it.
And when you see that, you will use this Personal Trainer,
and rapidly you'll become one. Seek and
it shall be granted unto you, knock and
it will be opened to you. Our hearts
open to us when we work at it, and when we ignore it, for head and flesh, it's
closed, atrophied. The kingdom of God is
within you, be like an insistent child and find it, and enter in. And you will stand with conscience, you will
stand with your heart, you will stand with humanity, and you may lead us out of
the darkness.
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