In
the 1930s, Gandhi convened India’s independence movement leaders for a
pivotal meeting. It wasn’t a productive meeting. Polarities widened and
rifts deepened as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (widely known as “Iron Man of
India”) threatened to quit. No resolution emerged, but Gandhi left the
meeting and quietly gave up salt from his diet. A month later, the same
people found a common ground for cooperation. It’s hard to say how
Gandhi’s sacrifice of salt affected the outcome of that meeting, but
Gandhi’s life offers repeated examples of how he believed his practices
of inner transformation could create external impact.
That’s a
foreign technology for our modern world—change yourself to change the
world. Yet, it’s prevalent in almost all the social-change giants of our
time from Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Dalai Lama to Cesar Chavez.
Instead of activism, we call it Giftivism. Giftivism is the practice of
radically generous acts that change the world. Radical in its audacity
to believe that inner and the outer are deeply inter-connected, and
generous in its vision of uplifting one-hundred percent, the oppressor
and the oppressed.
―excerpt from Nipun Mehta’s: AWAKENING TO
GIFTIVISM, IN PUNE: Transformation, one simple act at a time, from the
new summer issue of PARABOLA: “Heaven and Hell.”
Read it over at our website here: http://www.parabola.org/
That’s a foreign technology for our modern world—change yourself to change the world. Yet, it’s prevalent in almost all the social-change giants of our time from Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Dalai Lama to Cesar Chavez. Instead of activism, we call it Giftivism. Giftivism is the practice of radically generous acts that change the world. Radical in its audacity to believe that inner and the outer are deeply inter-connected, and generous in its vision of uplifting one-hundred percent, the oppressor and the oppressed.
―excerpt from Nipun Mehta’s: AWAKENING TO GIFTIVISM, IN PUNE: Transformation, one simple act at a time, from the new summer issue of PARABOLA: “Heaven and Hell.”
Read it over at our website here: http://www.parabola.org/
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