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in the external field so it cannot transform the society. "Non-violence of the brave" is a transformation of the inner mind which expresses itself in the external field, so it transforms the society. To bring out transformation in society, the individual mind must make a quantum jump from violence to non-violence. Non-violence is transcendence of the mind, is love, it is the timelessness. it is to come home.
The invitatiou to mankind, individually and collecti. vely, is to come home, to the timelessness of the Eternity, the Absolute, the present moment. It is as you stay at home here that you become a blessing. There is no one who can become a blessing at either side of the spectrum (past and future). Violence exists in the past and future. Non-violence expresses itself in the present, the timelessnees, the now,
The Healing of Mind-Boby Equipment : The term "wholism" or "holistic” comes from the Greek "holos” meaning entire or whole. The holistic education implies that the mind starts operating at a higher integrative potential, higher sensitivity, higher level of perception so that it heals the sick mind, the conditioned mind; the healing of mind implies jettisoning the nervous tension, the stresses of life, which results in decrease of chemical pressures; this leads one to perfect health and harmony. The holistic education heals the diseased mind and diseased body-this is the key to health care, to wholeness, this is the key to produce an orderly and harmonious human being, a whole person. It awakens the innate intelligence of man.
Health really comes from a word which means to make whole; to make whole means to express wholeness, and that expression of wholeness means an expression of everything you are, so health implies an orderly, harmonious, balanced, rhythmic, dynamic mind-brain equipment. We are involved in a eosmic dance, or a solar dance if you
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