“To understand force is to recognize that it is almost absolutely supreme in this world, and yet to reject it with loathing and contempt.”… “It is in the conception of love that this rejection of force reaches its fulfillment.

“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.”

This two quotes from Simone Weil that express perfectly, though somewhat tragically, the meaning of Aiki…. Peter