A Dozen and One Important Things You Can Do to Create Peace on Earth

1. Plant and nurture something that grows.
2. Practice the fine art of yielding–in your car, in conversation, and so on.
3. Become active in a group that works on principles of cooperation.
4. Fill your home, work, and commuting environments with visual and auditory images of peace and tranquility.
5. Do at least one thing to simplify your life and reduce your consumption of disposable products.
6. Do at least one thing to reduce your consumption of natural resources.
7. Move toward a vegetarian diet.
8. Learn and practice some form of meditation.
9. Learn and practice ways to reduce hostile interactions with others.
10. Exchange gentle forms of touch regularly.
11. Express appreciation to at least one individual or group every day.
12. Help three children learn three things on this list.
13. Pass this list along to someone else.

From Peace & Power: A handbook of feminist process by Charlene Eldridge Wheeler and Peggy L. Chinn (1991, National League for Nursing Press).

Filed under: conflict, feminism as politics, personal is political, resistance, words from women by Amy's Brain Today