Are you aware of nonviolent communication?

The question was asked first on LinkedIn where other answers can be found. My answer was:

“My friend and teacher John S. Dunne wrote "The Peace of the Present: An Unviolent Way of Life" to address this arena.

In the book, Dunne takes addresses three questions in his quest to understand violence.

• Where does violence come from?
• Where does nonviolence come from?
• How can we live in the peace of the present?

Written well before our current age of terrorism and war, still these meditations take on the most significant questions of our times.

Like Ghandi, recognizing that violence numbs the heart and that nonviolence gives voice to the heart's deepest desires, Dunne grasps the still center of the storms that churn around the eyes of the hurricanes of violence and notes the peace of the present at the core.

His distinction between the Hindu and Christian understandings at this centerpoint is tell-tale and worth great discussion as East and West meet more and more.

Highly recommended.”

What do you think?

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Thanks.

John Darrouzet