http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=velhfqXSkyQ
Today in 1958 artist Gerald Holtom designed a symbol for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. It would become the ubiquitous peace symbol of my generation…
I ruminate on this subject a lot. It feels an insurmountable conundrum…
On the one hand I have come to feel there are times when violence is justified. These are for self-defense or to defend a weaker party against a stronger one, following the same principal of defense. I know what I am likely to do if it means protecting my family…
Sadly, I’m also aware of both unintended consequences that follow a flood upon any violent action, and the misuse of the term self defense by every state. And I’m confident I can say every without qualification.
Also I look at the violence that lives near the core of our human hearts and I wonder if our species can in fact survive without some collective turn of the human heart that appears beyond our ability.
But…
I feel a need to work in the fields of justice, but increasingly I see it simply as a consequence of the practice of presence that is the heart of my spiritual discipline.
Work without hope.
And simply become peace…
While letting go of any clinging to results…
It’s all I’ve got.
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