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Palestine, 52
peace, 173-177, 192, 195. See
also heart at peace Peacemaking Pyramid, 201. See also heart at peace
applying, 210, 212-213 lessons of, 214-221, 224 listening/learning, 205-212, 214
relationship-building, 208¬211, 212, 214-218 teaching/communicating, 205 person as object, 54 person versus object, 32, 43, 78-80, 103-104, 115, 141, 157, 185 powerlessness, 100 prejudice, 95-96 problem solving, 13-19,
215-216 provocation, 46, 49
Q
questions, liberating, 186-187, 190-191, 194
R
recovering inner clarity and peace, 173-177, 196-198 relationships, building, 208-211,
212, 214-218 resentment, 34-35, 96-97 resistance, 173, 216, 217 responsibility for one's own
feelings/actions, 126, 128 right and wrong sides, 56 Rozen, Avi, background of, 4
S
Saladin (Yusuf Salah al-Din),
22-26, 28-30 self-betrayal, 90-91, 92, 94, 106¬107, 130, 137
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self-justifying box, 164 solutions, 17, 224 stuck feelings, 163, 171-173, 176, 190
T
taking action, 194-195 teaching, 205 tyrants, 159
U
unfairness, 119 V
victimhood, 189 Vietnam, 22-26 violence, 32, 63-64
W
war, choosing, 90-91, 92. See
also heart at war wars between individuals,
157-158 way of being, 216-217 choosing, 130 importance of, 35 responding to others', 36-37 toward others, 57 way-of-being diagram, 30 world-level conflicts, 52 worse-than box, 120, 121, 125 wrong side of an argument, 56
wrong way of thinking, 112¬113
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