“Be the change you want to see in the world“. Gandhi  This blog is series of reflections - a product of  inquiry, research, reflections and conversations over these weeks leading up to Gandhi’s sixtieth, and Martin Luther King’s fortieth year commemorations.  The Garrison Institute New York is beginning an initiative on Transformational Ecology, beginning with the Satyagraha Project.  The initiative includes a particular focus on the lineage of Gandhi and others who have provided inspirational leadership in times of crisis and profound large-scale change.  What are the lessons for us to learn?  Do the current times call for a new salt march - a grass roots community based global initiative?  What would be the underlying - or the inner - conditions that would need to enable such a global movement for the common good? Gandhi used the term Sarvodaya meaning ‘universal uplift’ or ‘progress of all’. It speaks to a commitment to a world that works for everyone with no-one left out. Without love - without an open heart - nothing makes sense.

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