Fear not, grief and joy

Avec : John Dear

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Extraits marquants

The journey of peace and nonviolence begins with grief and continues with joy.

Résumé

What does the path of nonviolence start with?

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Do not be afraid. Do not be
afraid. Do not be afraid.

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We all have to get that
through our heads.

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I mean, we can spend
our whole lives in fear

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and the culture of war
wants us to be afraid.

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Certainly, I think every government
tries to instill fear.

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"You've got to be afraid of them.
They're going to get you.

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You're gonna get killed."

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No. We practice fearlessness.

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So Gandhi professed
a vow of fearlessness.

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But the flipside of all of this, of Jesus,
the nonviolent Jesus saying

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don't cultivate anger or fear.
They won't help the life of nonviolence.

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Jesus advocated two emotions,
grief and joy.

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They're right there
in the sermon on the mount.

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Blessed are those who grieve.
Blessed are those who mourn.

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That's, the journey of peace and
nonviolence begins with grief.

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If we're all one with all
7.2 billion people on the planet

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then we're grieving because
millions have been killed,

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millions are dying from poverty
and the threat of war.

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So we're grieving and
that grief leads to

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widening our hearts into
greater compassion.

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And also he says blessed are you
when they persecute for working for justice

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and blessed are you when
they insult you and call you

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every name in the book.
Rejoice and be glad.

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Now you get to be like
Gandhi and Martin Luther King,

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like the prophets of old.
You get to practice nonviolence.

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But the word there is joy.

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But (Desmond) Tutu
when I was with him recently

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he said, "I've spent
my whole life weeping

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and my whole life laughing."

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That's the emotional life
of nonviolence.