Violence is forgetting who we are

Avec : John Dear

awake nonviolence violence

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Violence is forgetting who we are: human beings and beloved ones of the God of peace.

Résumé

Mindfulness and prayer help us to wake up to our common humanity.

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Violence is forgetting who we are,

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the minute you forget:
"I'm a human being,

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I am the beloved one
of the God of peace",

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well, I forget that I am violent to
myself, that I can be violent to you

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because you're not a human being.

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We start forgetting who each other are.

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And certainly they're not humans.

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Let's dehumanize them.

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You know we use racism or
sexism or they're immigrants

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or different religion or
they're just different.

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But ultimately you dehumanizing

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people of a different nation you call
them enemies and you can kill them.

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Non-violence then is
remembering who you are.

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It's a beautiful way to look at this.

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And that's why it's a spiritual practice,

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but it's also has powerful
political implications.

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More and more of us need to
wake up through mindfulness,

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prayer, consciousness.

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We are sisters and brothers of
every human being on the planet.

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We are all one.