Bearing Witness Blog
When we bear witness, when we become the situation – homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death –
the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what to do. We don’t have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
Bernie Glassman
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My experience of the bearing witness retreat on Lampedusa in 2016 was in many ways a turning point in my…
Evi Gemmon Ketterer wrote these lines after her Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz Birkenau with the Zen Peacemakers in 2013.…
Bearing Witnessa – a reflection by Evi Gemmon Ketterer “I, Gemmon, practice to devote myself to not-knowing. I will practice…
A Poem by Mary Oliver The poem is like a reminder of bearing witness to life. A summer day Who…