GUIDES TO TRANSFORMING POWER
- Seek to resolve conflicts by reaching common ground.
- Reach for that something in others that seeks to do good for self and others.
- Listen. Everyone has made a journey. Try to understand where the other person is coming from before you make up your mind.
- Base your position on truth. Since people tend to seek truth, no position based on falsehood can long prevail.
- Be ready to revise your position if you discover it is not fair.
- When you are clear about your position, expect to experience great inward power to act on it. A response that relies on this power will be courageous and without hostility.
- Do not expect that this response will automatically ward off danger. If you cannot avoid risk, risk being creative rather than violent.
- Surprise and humor may help transform.
- Learn to trust your inner sense of when to act and whento withdraw.
- Work towards new ways of overcoming injustice. Be willing to suffer suspicion, hostility, rejection, even persecution if necessary.
- Be patient and persistent in the continuing search for justice.
- Help build “community” based on honesty, respect and caring.
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