What about nonviolence -- what is it exactly?
• It is simple enough. If we know what violence is, then, nonviolence is non-tolerance of violence. Actually, you can say that tolerance of violence is violence.
• If the human being is intentionality, and violence is going against that intentionality, then, nonviolence is to contribute to the enhancement of that intentionality. To put it simply, if his transformation is hindered by suffering and his basic project is the overcoming of this pain, this suffering – then, helping him to alleviate his pain, his suffering, is nonviolence. Helping him in his transformation, then, is the greatest nonviolence act one can do for another – the most valid of all actions!
• In other words, to humanize is to act with nonviolence.
• The most important nonviolent act: to humanize the other.
• To humanize the other is to humanize the earth.
• To humanize the earth is to humanize yourself.
• Helping the other in his transformation is self-transformation.
• If you take this as your reality, as your mission, then nothing can detain you from your destiny, and you would have opened the other's future, his own destiny.
It is by virtue of the corporal expressions of the other, or by perceiving the situation in which the other appears, that I am able to comprehend the meanings of the other, the intention of the other. --SIlo, Letters to My Friends, Fourth Letter, http://siloswords.blogspot.com/2009/03/silo-letters-to-my-friends.html
When you treat others as you would have them treat you, you liberate yourself. –Silo, The Inner Look, http://siloswords.blogspot.com/2009/03/silo-inner-look_14.html•••
