Reading Archive (Action and Activism)
A Spiritual Conspiracy
On the surface of the Earth exactly now there is war and violence and everything looks horrible. But, simultaneously, something...
Why I Make Movies
All movies are an illusion. We think we are seeing motion but in fact we are seeing twenty-four still pictures every second. Half the...
Don't Go Back to Sleep
To be human is to be lost in the woods. None of us arrives here with clear directions on how to get from point A to point B without...
Medicine for the Earth
In all spiritual traditions it is taught that everything that manifests in the physical world starts in the invisible realms of spirit....
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
First, it must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he...
Spiritual Activism
I'm an environmentalist and I'm very much into cars that get high mileage and don't pollute, and I see that somebody's...
How Can You Live In This World And Yet Be Innocent?
How can you live in this world and yet be innocent? First, be innocent and then you will live in this world, not the other way round. Be...
Mass Movement
We see throughout the world extremes of poverty and riches, abundance and at the same time starvation; we have class distinction and...
I Have No Need For An Enemy
In passing my sentence, the judge said, “There’s no hope that you can ever be rehabilitated.” My sentence of 60-90...
Reverence Protects Life
As you work toward becoming reverent, your tendencies toward harming others and other forms of life diminish. As you acquire a sense of...
True Humility: Selfless Respect for Reality
From the potential unique location – the site of devastation that we might become – we understand that we are no grander...
Seeing Is Not Thinking
The question is not what to do but how to see. Seeing is the most important thing—the act of seeing. I need to realize that it is...
Two Kinds Of Resistance
The light begins its slow return to places in the North, and today a new year begins. Some people are saying it is already “too...
No Longer Playing It Safe
To work for peace and justice we begin with the individual practice of love, because it is there that we can experience firsthand...
Do What You Can
I'm basically a simple person. The way I look at the issues you're talking about, which are issues of the globe, is to bring it back to...
Social Action
To understand what social action is, we must realise that it is not a case of 'me with society around me' as if the two were...