Nonviolent Spirituality

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>More and more of us seem less convinced that violent conflicts on any level of life provide us with life-giving solutions. This is true of conflicts within us with people in our daily lives among larger groups and between nations. Nonviolence the creative and preferred alternative to violence provides possibilities for cultivating peacemaking toward sustainable reconciliation and more life-giving and humane resolutions. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The central question is: </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What must I do to sustain a nonviolent way of life? </em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a psycho-spiritual framework influenced by the psychology of Carl Jung readers engage in a wide- ranging reflection including to recall our personal legacies to consider life as a Great Dialogue to explore the experience of the Shadow to envision wholeness rather than perfection to reflect again on communities diversity and inclusivity to address the need for responsible self-care and to consider the personal principles and practices that will sustain a nonviolent way of life. </span></p><p><br></p>