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Non-violence ou Non Violence est à la fois un projet et une sculpture réalisée par l'artiste suédois Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd à la suite de la mort de John Lennon. L’œuvre représente un revolver au canon noué et existe en de nombreuses versions.
Le nom donné à la sculpture est variable selon les pays : The Knotted Gun ou Den knutna revolvern (anglais et suédois : le révolver noué)4, Der Knoten im Revolver (allemand : le nœud dans le révolver), Arma em Nó (portugais : l'arme en nœud/nouée).
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
John Lennon
“In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.” – Amit Ray, in Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
I wish everyone a peaceful and carefree Easter : )
If you sat on a cloud you would not see the dividing line between one nation and another, or the dividing line between a farm and another. Too bad you can not sit on a cloud.
(Khalil Gibran)
"The real choice is not 'between nonviolence and violence but between nonviolence and nonexistence ... If we fail to live as brothers all die as fools.
(Martin Luther King)
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juggler image in public domain
birds thanks Shadowhouse Creations
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""Last night, while saying goodby to my last folded origami-Santa, the presumed empty sack suddenly moved. To both our big surprise an origami-crane emerged ;-))""
In Japanese folklore, cranes are said to live a thousand years. Because of this, an origami crane represents a long, healthy life. Cranes are also viewed as symbols of happiness and good luck. According to legend, if one thousand paper cranes are folded, it is said that one's wish will be granted. After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the origami crane also became a symbol of peace and nonviolence.
I wish it was possible to give you all a folded origami-crane (origami Tsuru), but I have to do this way.
I want to thank you for your friendship and support throughout the year. Your appreciation and comments are a motivation to go on. I'm also happy I can share the joy of origami with you.
I wish you all a very joyful and happy Xmas or very joyful and happy Holidays with your beloved ones. Enjoy ;-))
Model: Babbo Natale sorpreso dal dono nel sacco / Santa Claus surprised by the gift in the sack
Design: Franceso Miglionico
Diagrams in QQM-magazine #63 'Buon Origami' by Francesco Miglionico
Paper:
- Santa Claus: 18x18cm kamipaper
- Sack with crane: 7x42cm white paper, partial painted black for the sack
“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLNs6zQIHo
PLEASE HELP THE PEOPLE - BIRDY
Dust to dusk
immortal light
darkness pervades
an endless night
dawn to me
is beautiful
a new day begins
for me, you and all
delicate dewdrops
fragile as glass
tread carefully
as I move through the grass
fragmented mist
parts like the Red sea
so I can walk through
find tranquility
I open my mind
to encompass it all
the knowledge I have
like a clear crystal ball
we have all the answers
but still close our minds
close our eyes and our ears
shut off from mankind
lonely or alone
are two different things
in the stillness we think clearly
see the joy that love brings
spend just a moment
in enlightenment; space
that expands as it broadens
the smile on our faces
hands clasped together
or held in another
collectively pray
feel the hug of each other
it is better to be free
with our thoughts and our ways
closing ourselves off
brings darkness to days
still we need time
just a little for ourselves
so we can recharge
and return to the world
in each of us a light
shines bright in the dark
set your sights; never fight
bring your light to the world.
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Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation - John Lewis
New York Times Opinion
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-right...
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♫ Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance (1969) ♫
♫ John Lennon - Power To The People-Offical Video - HQ ♫
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Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well you get on your feet
And out on the street
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
A million workers working for nothing
You better give 'em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself
Singing power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Now, now, now, now
Oh well, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Yeah, power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on
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If we hate someone, we hate something in his image, which sits in ourselves. What is not in ourselves, this excited us not.
Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.
Hermann Hesse, Demian, The Collected Works Volume 5
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"When the war was over, the soldier came home. But he had no bread. Then he saw a man who had bread. He beat him dead / / You can not kill somebody, said the judge. / / Why not? asked the soldier."
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"All people have a sewing machine, a radio, a refrigerator and a telephone. What do we do now? Asked the factory owners . / / bombs , said the inventor . / / war , said the General . / / If there is no other way, said the factory owners. "
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"Oh, we were looking for you, God , in every ruin, every shell-hole, every night . We have called you God, we have yelled out for you, cried, cursed! Where were you then, dear God?"
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" Responsibility is not just a word , a chemical formula, is white human flesh transformed in the dark earth. We can not let people die for an empty word. Somewhere we must have our responsibility. The dead - not answer. God - not answer. But the survivors ask.
"When they tell tomorrow command , you should not water pipes and no pots to make more - but steel helmets and machine guns , then there is only one choice: Say NO! ".
Wolfgang Borchert, „Lesebuchgeschichten“, in: „Draußen vor der Tür“, (Outside the door) , ISBN 3-499-10170-X, 1956,
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The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm distinguishes between two types of hate:
Reactive Hate
It is always the result of a deep injury or a painful situation, it is powerless against, because they can not change on their own. Erich Fromm writes: "In reactive hate I mean a response that due to an attack on my life, my safety, my ideals, or to another person, whom I love and with whom I am identified.
Reactive hatred always presupposes that someone has a positive outlook on life to other people and ideals. Who is strong life-affirming, will react accordingly if his life is threatened."
Source: Wikipedia, German, Articles: Hate
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FIRST THEY CAME – BY PASTOR MARTIN NIEMÖLLER
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Source: www.hmd.org.uk
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|| Bread || Wolfgang Borchert || Wolfgang Borchert - Quotes || Hate || Discrimination || Rubble literature || Martin Niemöller ||
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Bruxelles -- Grande Place --
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
~Mahatma Gandhi~
"If you want real peace in the world, start with children."
~Mahatma Gandhi~
Unfortunately more and more couples are uncapable of raising children the way they should. Consequently more and more "angry", children live in our world. The "violence" phonomenon will go on and on unless we all find a way to spread love and put an end to this.
We can ALL help towards a Better World!
"There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."
– Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927
The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, by all member states of the United Nations (UN web-pages on Non-Violence Day).
This is a photo of an exhibit (statues), in the Sabarmati Ashram museum, that recreates the famous Salt March, an overwhelmingly popular act of non-violent civil disobedience in colonial India initiated by Mahatma Gandhi.
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is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
This is one out of eight original works.
Åland fick ett av åtta orginalverk av Non Violence av Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd i hundraårsgåva av kommersrådet Anders Wiklöf 9 juni 2022.
The Flower Power era refers to a cultural movement that peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s and reflected the hippie movement.
Key characteristics of the Flower Power era:
Symbol of nonviolence:
Flower Power was an expression of the desire for peaceful coexistence and a rejection of violence.
Die Flower Power Zeit bezeichnet eine kulturelle Bewegung, die in den späten 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahren ihren Höhepunkt hatte und die Hippie-Bewegung widerspiegelte.
Hauptmerkmale der Flower Power Zeit:
Symbol der Gewaltlosigkeit:
Flower Power war ein Ausdruck für den Wunsch nach einem friedlichen Zusammenleben und einer Ablehnung von Gewalt.
World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of happiness, freedom, and peace within and among all people and nations on Planet Earth. Within this idea of the world, nonviolence is one motivation for people and nations to willingly cooperate, either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that has this objective. Different cultures, religions, philosophies, and organizations have varying concepts on how such a state would come about.
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Cao Đài is a Vietnamese monotheistic syncretic religion that retains many elements from Vietnamese folk religion such as ancestor worship, as well as "ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization from Roman Catholicism". It was officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926.
The full name of the religion is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (chữ Hán: 大道三期普度 'The Great Faith [for the] Third Universal Redemption').
Adherents engage in practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom from saṃsāra. Estimates of the number of Caodaists in Vietnam vary; government figures estimate 4.4 million Caodaists affiliated to the Cao Đài Tây Ninh Holy See, with numbers rising up to 6 million if other branches are added.
The United Nations found about 2.5 million Cao Dai followers in Vietnam as of January 2015. An additional number of adherents in the tens of thousands, primarily ethnic Vietnamese, live in North America, Cambodia, Europe and Australia as part of the Cao Dai diaspora. (Wikipedia)
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This temple is full of amazing colour, imagery and detail. This is a close up view of the alter.
Tây Ninh, Vietnam. January 2025.
Emerald River Cruises.
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Cao Đài is a Vietnamese monotheistic syncretic religion that retains many elements from Vietnamese folk religion such as ancestor worship, as well as "ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization from Roman Catholicism". It was officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926.
The full name of the religion is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (chữ Hán: 大道三期普度 'The Great Faith [for the] Third Universal Redemption').
Adherents engage in practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom from saṃsāra. Estimates of the number of Caodaists in Vietnam vary; government figures estimate 4.4 million Caodaists affiliated to the Cao Đài Tây Ninh Holy See, with numbers rising up to 6 million if other branches are added.
The United Nations found about 2.5 million Cao Dai followers in Vietnam as of January 2015. An additional number of adherents in the tens of thousands, primarily ethnic Vietnamese, live in North America, Cambodia, Europe and Australia as part of the Cao Dai diaspora. (Wikipedia)
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View of the temple from the river. We thought it was colourful when first seeing it from a distance, but the colours and details inside are incredible.
Tây Ninh, Vietnam. January 2025.
Emerald River Cruises.
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Cao Đài is a Vietnamese monotheistic syncretic religion that retains many elements from Vietnamese folk religion such as ancestor worship, as well as "ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization from Roman Catholicism". It was officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926.
The full name of the religion is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (chữ Hán: 大道三期普度 'The Great Faith [for the] Third Universal Redemption').
Adherents engage in practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom from saṃsāra. Estimates of the number of Caodaists in Vietnam vary; government figures estimate 4.4 million Caodaists affiliated to the Cao Đài Tây Ninh Holy See, with numbers rising up to 6 million if other branches are added.
The United Nations found about 2.5 million Cao Dai followers in Vietnam as of January 2015. An additional number of adherents in the tens of thousands, primarily ethnic Vietnamese, live in North America, Cambodia, Europe and Australia as part of the Cao Dai diaspora. (Wikipedia)
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Interior of the temple. The monks and nuns wear white and pray in a similar manner to the buddhists. I was surprised as the neon LCD lighting around the arches. Above the blue lights, one can find carvings of the saints of Cao Dai, including Jesus, Buddha and more.
Tây Ninh, Vietnam. January 2025.
Emerald River Cruises.
Please, no invitations to award/forced comment groups or to those with large/animated comment codes.
Cao Đài is a Vietnamese monotheistic syncretic religion that retains many elements from Vietnamese folk religion such as ancestor worship, as well as "ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization from Roman Catholicism". It was officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926.
The full name of the religion is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (chữ Hán: 大道三期普度 'The Great Faith [for the] Third Universal Redemption').
Adherents engage in practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom from saṃsāra. Estimates of the number of Caodaists in Vietnam vary; government figures estimate 4.4 million Caodaists affiliated to the Cao Đài Tây Ninh Holy See, with numbers rising up to 6 million if other branches are added.
The United Nations found about 2.5 million Cao Dai followers in Vietnam as of January 2015. An additional number of adherents in the tens of thousands, primarily ethnic Vietnamese, live in North America, Cambodia, Europe and Australia as part of the Cao Dai diaspora. (Wikipedia)
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Entrance to the temple guarded by a demon on one side and a god on the other. The use of colour throughout the temple is amazing.
Tây Ninh, Vietnam. January 2025.
Emerald River Cruises.
“Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“There is a God part in you.
The consciousness.
The pure Self.
Learn to listen to the voice of that Power.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Flower power is a slogan which was often used during the 1960s and early years of the 1970s to symbolize passive resistance and nonviolence. It was rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War.
Lonely pigeon of peace standing in a snow with a rally against Russia’s military occupation in Ukraine in downtown Helsinki on the background.
Copyright Mikko Palonkorpi.
Non-Violence is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Reuterswärd made this sculpture after singer-songwriter and peace activist John Lennon was murdered.
There are currently 16 copies of the sculpture around the world, ten of them in Sweden.
FN-Dagen 16-10-24
Standing outside United Nations Headqurters, New York.
Made by Swedish sculptor Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
Explore 2016-10-24
GOOD EVENING, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, THE APOSTLE OF NONVIOLENCE IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BEEN SHOT TO DEATH IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. A WHITE MAN WAS SEEN RUNNING FROM THE SCENE. OFFICERS ALSO REPORTEDLY CHASED AND FIRED ON A CAR CONTAINING TWO WHITE MEN.
DR. KING WAS STANDING ON THE BALCONY OF A SECOND-FLOOR HOTEL ROOM THE NIGHT, WHEN ACCORDING TO A COMPANION, A SHOT WAS FIRED FROM ACROSS THE STREET.
From the CBS News Broadcast, Walter Cronkite was the anchor.
Clock is part of a static display at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia
Knotted Gun or Non Violence - Created by Carl Fredrik Reutersward. Inspired by the shooting of John Lennon.
Taken with my old point and shoot when I took up photography again some nine years ago! Decided to process it differently...
Thanks to Anna Kwa for the quote
“The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing non-violence.
Amit Ray
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The knotted gun ”Non-Violence” (based upon a Colt Python 357 Magnum revolver) was originally created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Rueterswärd as a memorial tribute to John Lennon after he was shot and killed in New York City in December
1980.
Lucia, a former volunteer in "anti-corruption and depose-Chen" campaign since 2006/9/9 and turning to a leader, called the Reds gathering in front of President office on 2007/11/4 to support judicial officials' prosecution the corruption against President Chen and his family. She also urge people "Don't let Taiwan become an island of corruption"...
"蔡守訓、徐千惠、吳定亞、吳俊龍、李嘉明、林達、張友寧，堅持正義，老百姓支持您，加油！..."
由倒扁義工筱篟發起的紅衫軍次團體「仁義之獅」，於2007/11/4週日下午三時至八時在凱達格蘭大道集會遊行。主題為：別讓台灣成為罪惡之島，他們當場陳述陳水扁貪腐政權腐敗無能的罪狀，並呼籲大家給予努力對抗貪腐政權的司法人員精神支持...
ps:
"Reds", "Red shirts" or "Red shirt army" are the terminology for people who wear red and attend the "anti-corruption and depose-Chen" sit-in protest led by Shih Ming-teh since Sept 9, 2006.
to view all my photos about this topic, click "anti-corruption and depose-Chen" 2006~2007.
Taipei, Taiwan.
2007/11/4
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Police hauled off protesters after the protesters were repeatedly doused with pepper spray.
Police were forced haul some of the protesters out of the roadway in order to clear the road for military cargoes. Protesters were dropped on the side of the road and no attempt was made to make arrests of the nonviolent protesters. There was also no effort made by the police to wash off, or offer medical assistance to, the protesters after they were repeatedly sprayed with OC pepper spray, a chemical weapon.
"Our prayers have always been for peace and nonviolence. But our hearts, and our anger, you know where that's pointed. So sing with us. Those beautiful kids at that f*cking music festival ...
'Early morning, October 7, as the sun is rising, in the desert sky,
Stars of David, they took your life,
but they could not take your pride.' "
~ U2
Suecia - Malmoe - Pistola Anudada (No a la violencia)
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ENGLISH
Non-Violence is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python 357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Reuterswärd made this sculpture after singer-songwriter and peace activist John Lennon was murdered. You can find copies in other cities like Halmstad, Stockholm, Gothenburg, New York, Berlin, Beijing, Lausanne, etc. The sculpture has been the symbol since 1993 of The Non-Violence Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes social change through violence-prevention education programs. The Museum of Sketches in Lund, Sweden holds a sketch of the firearm on which Reuterswärd noted that his grief at the murders of Lennon and Bob Crane inspired him to design this artwork.
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ESPAÑOL
"No a la violencia" es una escultura de bronce del artista sueco Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd a gran tamaño de un Colt Python. Es un revólver Magnum 357 con un cañón anudado y
apuntando hacia arriba. Reuterswärd hizo esta escultura después de que el cantautor y activista por la paz John Lennon fuera asesinado. La escultura ha sido el símbolo desde 1993 de "The Non-Violence Project" , una organización sin fines de lucro que promueve el cambio social a través de programas educativos para la prevención de la violencia. Se pueden encontrar copias en muchas ciudades del mundo como Nueva York (ONU), Lausanne, Berlín, Beijing, Halmstad, Gotemburgo, Estocolmo, etc. El Museo de Bocetos de Lund , Suecia conserva un boceto del arma de fuego en la que Reuterswärd se inspiró para diseñar esta obra de arte, fruto de su dolor por los asesinatos de Lennon y Bob Crane.
43-11 Ithaca Street, Elmhurst NY Jain Center
Photo published in an article on the Jain Center in Crain's New York Business on 7/18/2010