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Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Change
#Light
#Gasoline
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Real
#Future
#Thinking
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Attitude
#Heart
#Feelings
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Peace
#Understanding
#Stories
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I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Littles
#Energy
#Fats
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If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Energy
#Fats
#Grows
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Heart
#Worry
#Mind
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together
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Scilla Elworthy
#Communication
#Together
#Partners
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Scilla Elworthy
#War
#Army
#Government
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.
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Scilla Elworthy
#War
#Long
#Understanding
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Change happens at the level of the individual
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Scilla Elworthy
#Future
#Levels
#Individual
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Art
#Political
#Politics
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Peace
#Powerful
#Use
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I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.
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Scilla Elworthy
#Names
#Himalayas
#Flew
