In this podcast, Veronica discusses a critical element of nonviolence—honesty. Using a quote from Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, we can see how avoiding issues in the hopes that the problem will resolve itself often ends up making resolution harder in the long run.

Veronica points out that in the effort to make change, the first thing we need to transform is ourselves. But that is only the first step—from there we can take these skills out into the streets and into the world. To walk the nonviolent path requires consciousness, and a lot of hard work to get there.

Pursuit of the truth and courage required for nonviolence also requires that we resist the pull towards comfort, for ourselves and for others. Digging deep is more important so that we can do the more profound work of not trying to fix things, but to heal instead.