In a weekend class taught by Dr. Sharon Welch, her writings and teachings acknowledge that peace is not simple. She writes, "Those of us who are working for peace are not a righteous vanguard. we can, and will, abuse cooperative power and need our own Trickster stories to remind us of our flaws and excesses. There is not multitude, no group any less likely than others to abuse power. [...] wisdom, ongoing self-critique, and accountability are required of all of us, not just the imperial others, in the exercise of social, cultural, economic and political power." (from Real Peace, Real Security)
The source of this humility is described by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not. Just as a scientist will work wonders out of various applications of the law of nature, even so a man who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work greater wonders. . .Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings. Such, at any rate, is the hallucination, if it is one, under which I am laboring. The more I work at this law the more I feel the delight in life, the delight in the scheme of the universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe.
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