Scilla Elworthy quotes
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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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“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.”
-- Scilla ElworthySource : Scilla Elworthy (1997). “Power and Sex: Developing Inner Strength to Deal with the World”, Element Books Limited
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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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“There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.”
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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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“If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Change happens at the level of the 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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“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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“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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