Posts tagged peace
What the Dalai Lama Knows

"The only mistake you can make is to give up hope." I often think of this statement from the Dalai Lama which closed his talk that I attended in 1998. His visit to this country last week heartened many, including President Obama in their meeting at the White House. About to turn 81, His Holiness was 77 when I wrote this blog. Truth ages well.

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Blog: From the Philoso...Mariettacompassion, Dalai Lama, David Hume, forgiveness, hope, inner calm, non-violence, optimism, peace, President ObamaComment
Nonviolence Wins

The world is learning more each day of huge strides made in another “long walk to freedom,” this time in Burma, aka Myanmar. Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of this lengthy and surely ongoing struggle, links arms with King, Mandela, Gandhi and others who used nonviolent means to achieve many of their goals. Nonviolence wins in the long haul. I first learned of her in 1998 when I was in the audience for a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize Winners at the University of Virginia. Why was she under house arrest?

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Blog: From the Philoso...MariettaAung San Suu Kyi, Burma, grace, Myanmar, NLD, Nobel Peace Prize, nonviolence, peace, persistence, the philosopher's tableComment