Core Principles
for Today's Anti-slavery
Campaign
(Co-opted
from the Center for Action and
Contemplation)
1. The teaching of Jesus is our central
reference point. (criterion)
2. We need a contemplative mind in order to
do compassionate action. (process)
3. The best criticism of the bad is the
practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same. (emphasis)
4. Practical truth is more likely found at
the bottom and the edges than at the top or the center of most groups,
institutions, and cultures. (perspective)
5. We will support true authority, the
ability to "author" life in others, regardless of the group. (non-tribal)
6. Life is about discovering the right
questions more than having the right answers. (primacy of
discernment)
7. True religion leads us to an experience
of our True Self and undermines my false self. (ultimate
direction)
8. We do not think ourselves into a new way
of living, but we live ourselves into a new way of thinking. (praxis over
theory)
