Quote of the Day: Robert Thurman on Finding Peace for Effective Activism
by Jessica Root - Brooklyn, NY on 06. 4.11
Photo: kudumomo/Flickr
Once we find inner peace, any small bit of it, baby step by baby step, we feel much better, even joyful and energized. Then whatever activist work we do to achieve outer peace in any situation comes from an effective place and does not create more turbulence and counter-reactions.
If only I stumbled upon Buddhist scholar, Robert Thurman's fine advice in my early twenties I could have spared days spent depressed, downtrodden, and outright stressed over environmental catastrophes that were largely out of my control. Mental exhaustion from that rarely left me stoked to pen an inspired blog post, not to mention quick to participate in community efforts. I was the apex of ineffective.