silence is the least violent method of protest. it does little to assert over the external world, but that is the point: assertion is violence--it attempts to use external forces to evoke change, the most fundamental of which should best be invoked internally. hence assertiveness applied first to self is key, while the enthusiasm to change the world is eventually met with multiple springs of doubt as to the question of utility, "why am i spending my short life trying to change everything outside of my life?"
whereas in a peaceful philosphy, one would garner the concept of being one with the external world, not at odds with it, such that the pushes and pulls of the environment result in temporary pleasure and consistent suffering, as is the persistence of disappointment which accompanies the desire to achieve costly ideals in world of reality and individual sentient beings with their own ideas. why push an idea on someone, why push an idea anyway, if the idea is not recognised by Peace?
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