Love. How can we “love our enemies” when they cause us so much pain? Love in the tradition of Nonviolence doesn’t mean acceptance of an opponent. It doesn’t even mean you have to like your opponent. Love means connecting to the potential of your opponent. It means seeing yourself in your opponent.
We each may remember a time when we were not who we are now. If you sat down and had a conversation with your past self about issues now important to you, you might not even like that past person. If that person was in front of you today, you might even see that person as an opponent.
But what if you hate or dismiss or even hurt your opponent? Will that person have the opportunity to reach their potential? How might you help them? Think how much more powerful it would be to recognize the potential for good in your opponent, to foster their potential and to offer a hand in their reaching that potential. Help them connect. That is love.
“... violence is a method by which the ruthless few can subdue the passive many.
Nonviolence is a means by which the active many can overcome the ruthless few." - Jonathan Schell, The Unconquerable World
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