Status Updates From On Non-Violence

Il regno del terrore non è paragonabile al regno della pace: non si tratta di rispetto e cura reciproci, ma di inazione dettata dalla paura, da un sentimento di violenza strozzato dal timore di morire. La non violenza è amore in questo senso. D'altro canto l'impotenza che porta all'inazione non è non violenza, è solo vigliaccheria.

Mai banale.

“Service who is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in the spirit of joy.”

"East and West," Coomaraswamy wrote, "are at cross purposes only because the west is determined, i.e. at once resolved and economically 'determined', to keep on going it knows not where, and it calls the ruderless voyage 'Progress'."

It seems to me that what humanity has managed to do is to scale itself up, and this has come at great cost to humanity itself, as well as the planet.

"East and West," Coomaraswamy wrote, "are at cross purposes only because the west is determined, i.e. at once resolved and economically 'determined', to keep on going it knows not where, and it calls the ruderless voyage 'Progress'."