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Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis presents:

This week on our longrunning, ongoing “Walk the Talk Show” podcast and video series, with awards and millions of views over the years…

A timely message from Waylon:

On this day of 9/11, may we love harder, may we peace harder. Love & peace are not flimflam lovenlight spiritual bypassing BS, they’re hard. They’re real. They’re honest. May we not wish violence on anyone.

Aggression only creates further aggression. Aggression is weak. Active love is powerful.

This video spans a few topics and is about the recent school shooting in Colorado, Charlie Kirk’s murder, 9/11, gun reform, the fact and belief that violence is never okay, and that love and peace are hard work.

Watch the video:

“On a day like today, 9/11, let’s honor the real peace and the real peace is hard work with love, seeing the good in one another and, studying history and learning from it—not perpetuating some myth that the US was always perfect, which it wasn’t. I love America. I am American. Part of that love—like any mature relationship—is admitting the problems and how we can heal and improve those problems.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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“Violence is not helpful. Violence is the problem that you’re trying to cure, and you can’t cure violence with violence. Aggression, as they say in Buddhism, just creates further aggression. Hopefully, this is a wake-up call in a good way.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

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“ Empathy is, is not a theory, it’s not a liberal thing. It’s a basic human quality of caring. If you see a puppy dog kicked by someone, your heart leaps out of his chest with immediate empathy. Empathy is just natural. It’s pre-thought. We can bury empathy but we can’t pretend that empathy is not part of the human inheritance.

It’s primordial. It’s basic to who we are. So let’s invest in empathy, in tough conversations. Let’s not repeat 9/11. Let’s create real peace. And love. Love is active love, as MLK said. It’s not passive love. It’s not a spiritual bypassing kind of selfish love. Love is tough work. Love is open conversations and I’m trying to practice that in my life.” ~ Waylon H. Lewis

More Elephant Journal articles with context to the conversation:

>> Waylon Lewis on 9/11.

>> “The Solution to Gun Violence.” by Waylon Lewis

>> “If you’re arguing online against commonsense gun reform that 90% of Americans support right now, you are the problem.” by Waylon Lewis 

>> “Waylon with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand on Gun Reform.

>> “If Guns were as regulated as Cars.” by Lynn J. Broderick

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