What does it mean to ‘centre down’, and what might it have to do with peacemaking? Anne Wade recount

20 Jun 2024 | by Anne Wade

‘Peace starts by being kind with one’s own inner anger.’

‘It was easier to focus on someone in need and go down into the depths with them than to meditate alone or centre down in Meeting.’ | Photo: by Sage Friedman on Unsplash

I became a pacifist when I realised that if it was wrong of the Luftwaffe to bomb British children, it was wrong of the RAF to bomb German children. There must be another way, but what was it? After Hiroshima our question was, ‘How can we stop the next war?’. It would be down to us, because the grownups thought they had finished the job.

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