Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action

"To take care of each other should be our primary concern in this 21st century and Father Dear is steady on this course."
—Thich Nhat Hanh

For John Dear, a Jesuit priest and respected leader of the ecumenical peace movement, the spiritual life is a combination of contemplation and action, of maintaining inner peace and projecting that peace into the greater world. It is the spirituality exemplified by the lives of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and others thro...