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%ESSENCE OF VIOLENCE 840603
The essence of violence is the violation of the
integrity of that person, creature, or thing which is
violated. Through violence that which was whole---
becomes less whole, less integrated, less inter-
connected---both internally and externally. Thus
violence occasions alienation and guilt.
The person who is guilty of violence thereby becomes
less whole, and so also experiences the consequences
of violence as a reduction of integrity. Violence is a
two edged sword which violates the integrity of the
violent one, as well as of the victim.
A person can not be whole, have integrity, without
freedom of choice. To be a whole person involves the
freedom to freely consider and chose from among
various alternatives. To be deprived of that freedom to
freely consider and chose is to be violated. To
have that freedom expanded is to be loved. To learn
to promote integrity through the experiences of such
love is to grow in wisdom. To learn to engage in
violence through such freedom is to be damned.
To reduce violence people should pray for the
integration of personal and communal integrity. The
essence of prayer is the search for the balanced union
of personal and communal integrity. Communal prayer is
an essential part of the search for personal integrity.
All real prayer is an essential part for the union of
the personal and the communal search.
If any important aspect of private and communal life
is ignored in the private or communal search for
integrity; then that search is incomplete, unbalanced and
still lacks integrity, completion. Thus real prayer is
the search for ways to integrate all of life into prayer,
in the way which Love reduces violence through the
integration of all of life into a meaningful whole.
Those who seek integration through prayer do not
seek to control others to achieve integration. Ownership
and control are not integrative, not parts of Love.
Taboos are not enforced through alienation by lovers
praying for integration.
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