We have learned the ways of war. We are good at dividing and conquering and we rely on our ability to shame or ignore those who are different or oppose us – even among people on our “side”. Violence has become the human default in word and deed.
We’ve backed ourselves into a corner and we continue to try to punch our way out.
As we witness the grotesque slaughter of civilian Palestinians – mostly women and children – and the ongoing violence to so many people throughout the world, we are left with the undeniable reality that we must change course.
However lofty our goals, however righteous our positions, without recognition of our shared humanity we will always fail to achieve the lasting peace we seek.
Whether we like it or not, whether we approve or not, we are one people, one planet. And we are destroying her. Through extraction of resources and the murdering of our people we are turning this garden into an unlivable hell.
There is a simple truth we need to embrace. There are more people wanting peace than the few who are destroying that possibility. And if so, then how do the peaceful find one another? How do we allow each of us the dignity to live as we choose?
Most importantly: how do we end the violence that has become our choice for resolution?
There’s only one remedy for this sickness of humankind. Those who have the courage and the ability must create new ways of coexistence. Through love and compassion we must revive the power of peace in our lives and let that become humanity’s highest goal.
Peace is possible. Let this be our resistance.
Image of Gandhi at the Salt March, 1930.
Let us return to the power of resistance through peace. Each of us.
let kindness win 