Selected Quotations from my CPT Training Notes.

The way to get rid of an enemy is to turn him into a friend.

Justice: it will be better when everyone has enough.

A feeling of purpose or meaning in one’s life contributes to a sense of calm in difficult situations. What is my purpose, my meaning in life?

When coming out of a place of privilege, we can forget that our strongest power is the power of non-violent love, and rely instead on our privilege.

Observation without evaluation is the highest form of intelligence.

The purpose of conflict transformation / non-violent communication is
- to return to a natural way of being, i.e. joy in interactions
- to free ourselves from pre-conditioned thinking
- to build life-serving organizations

Working on undoing oppression (my own and that of my society) is part of working out my salvation with fear and trembling.

Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast.

The way out of the mess we have created will mean that people of privilege give something up.
But that’s ok, because there’s enough here for everyone.

Walls are better at keeping people in than at keeping people out.

Do you put a dollar’s worth of energy
into a nickel’s worth of conflict?

Welcome to the fiery furnace.
CPT is in here alongside Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego,
and is pulling the church in as well.

It’s not children’s responsibility to end violence.
They will stop violent play when they stop seeing it in their life.

My intention: to get “self” out of the way of relationships,
to be curious, to see, to ask questions, to enjoy.

Reconciliation is what God does with the enemy problem.