Over forty years since his death and another Martin Luther King Jr. Day is here. His legacy continues to be about race and there certainly is a long way to go in reaching social justice for people of color. But in my study of Martin Luther King, I found his message to be much bigger. It is about love. It is about caring for others. Essentially, it is about nonviolence in all of our thoughts and deeds.
His truth was that nonviolence (nonharm) is the solution to our problems. Violence (harmful actions or thoughts) is the cause of them. This is the message that we are missing or somehow not hearing. We continue to hate and to fear.
So as a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. during this annual celebration of his life and work, I'd simply like to share the link to the Wikipedia entry for 'non-violence' in hopes that you, the reader, will take a few minutes to learn what this amazing philosophy has to offer if you have not read about it before:
Nonviolence (ahimsa/non-injury) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-violence
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