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Announcing the 6-month companion journal to the publication Seeds of Light Planting Seeds of Love, Kindness, and Compassion: Living Your Legacy!
Seeds of Light Planting Seeds of Love, Kindness, and Compassion is filled with nonviolent practice consideration ideas, activities, and examples at the end of each chapter. The Foreword by Arun Gandhi spotlights the importance of value-based education. Seeds of Light begins with a Montessori Peace Tree planting and concludes with Gandhi’s Tree Lesson. The last chapter in the book is dedicated to Gandhi’s Tree lesson where he has his grandson document acts of passive and physical violence cultivating his education in the path of nonviolence. This legacy journal is a guide geared toward the youth, yet applicable to people of all ages and stages of growth. | Mahatma Gandhi and Maria Montessori
With violence on the uptick, especially in our schools throughout the nation, it is time we re-evaluate our curriculum and begin to integrate value based options to help children understand and overcome passive-violent tendencies.
As Arun Gandhi explains –
“Instead of teaching people the importance of respect and compassion we teach them that success means material gains and that everyone must aspire to make a lot of money. We teach our children to be motivated and be successful in life. In insidious ways we teach them to be selfish and greedy. This means they do not learn how to love, respect, understand or be compassionate towards those who are less fortunate.
In short, education is not only what one learns in school but what kind of foundation they get at home and whether the young people realize that education is a lifelong experience. We must have an open, absorbing mind that will learn from every experience and every encounter they have through their lives. Most of the time young people are given the impression that once they get their certificate their education stops.”
Seeds of Light Living and Journaling Your Legacy provides a simple and encouraging method to discover your innate intelligence and focus on deeper meanings and evolutionary growth and healing from within. This journal makes an ideal gift for loved ones.
Violence Running Rampant!
Originally posted @GWEI
Violence runs rampant in these austere times. An embodiment of the concept would certainly manifest as the Hydra itself, the
multi-headed serpent monster from ancient Greek mythology, a monster which Hercules himself had difficulty slaying.
Mimicking the Hydra, violence is manifold and ruthless. In today’s world, where there is mass profit from maintaining perpetual tragedies such as war, obtaining any leverage over this beast is an absolutely Herculean task.
Despite the seemingly infinite difficulties that one who chooses to walk nonviolent a path has before them, many, such as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King and Bell Hooks, have boldly endured innumerable gauntlets and tirelessly worked against powers terrifyingly dedicated to the preservation of global suffering, powers operating in the name of ephemeral trinkets such as money and status.
These people, some of whom can be named by grade-school children, others whose names have faded into the aether, laid the groundwork for future generations to blaze formerly unforeseen trails to a world transformed.
I consider myself one of these freshly hatched trailblazers; I’ve spent the last four of my nineteen years of life coming to political consciousness and obtaining skills that have allowed me to work against violence in its various manifestations in my life, and the world more broadly.
In the past four years, I’ve been apart of various projects dedicated to the eradication of violence and the implementation of justice. From pushing the public school system in my home city, Washington, D.C, to adopt restorative justice in various DC public schools utilizing photography and personal stories, to co-creating a theatre piece about real-life experiences with systems of oppression – and many other experiences and opportunities – these past four years have been integral to the formulation of who I am currently.
And who I am currently is still in a process of growth and discovery despite the spectacular aforementioned experiences I’ve had. Who I am currently yearns to learn, do, and grow indefinitely. Which is exactly why I came to the Gandhi Institute in September to work as a Program Intern. Read more
