Inspiration:
- reorients my heart when I'm tired, cynical, or discouraged
- reminds me what I'm aiming toward, not just what I'm resisting
- keeps me choosing not to harden
- keeps my imagination supple and active, even under pressure
- prevents nonviolence from becoming dry, dutiful, or purely performative
- lets me believe in responses that don't yet exist, but could
- holds complexity in harmony
Without inspiration, nonviolence can shrink into:
- rule-following without soul
- restraint without vision
- or worse, a kind of grim endurance that eventually snaps
With inspiration, nonviolence is creative, spacious, and alive. Structured but not rigid.
This small origami form began with an ordinary square. Fueled by inspiration, cut to a pentagon and folded with care it became extraordinary!
Today I'm practicing inspiration by asking:
What else is possible here?
What more beautiful response could exist?
No comments:
Post a Comment