Power Matters - Soul Force 1

"It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells."

"You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love."

"This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don't be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings."

"Active Hope is not wishful thinking.
Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued . . . .
by some savior.
Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act.
We belong to this world.
The web of life is calling us forth at this time.
We've come a long way and are here to play our part.
With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store,
strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with.
Active Hope is a readiness to discover the strengths
in ourselves and in others;
a readiness to discover the reasons for hope
and the occasions for love.
A readiness to discover the size and strength of our hearts,
our quickness of mind, our steadiness of purpose,
our own authority, our love for life,
the liveliness of our curiosity,
the unsuspected deep well of patience and diligence,
the keenness of our senses, and our capacity to lead.
None of these can be discovered in an armchair or without risk."

Active Hope with Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

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Aung Sang Suu Kyi:

"A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights.

"There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance and fear. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear."

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu

After the fall of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first Black president, Archbishop Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where he pushed for restorative justice.

Tutu stated that the word ubuntu, which is rooted in South African culture means that a person becomes human through other persons, that my humanness is inextricably bound up in yours. "Such a person," says Tutu, knows that, "he or she belongs in a greater whole, and is diminished when others are humiliated... or are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are... What dehumanizes you, inexorably dehumanizes me. What elevates you, elevates me."

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