JOURNAL OF A WALK FOR PEACE OF SOJOURNER FREE
“Who Is My Family? My Blood, Or Those Who Walk With Me?”
Journal to Kilometer 1181 (With 429 to go with phase 1), by Jeff Knaebel.
Early in the morning we passed by Apple and walnut orchards, and came upon a women with her cow.  The lady carried a […]

by Jeff Knaebel, Sojourner Free on the 145th day of his man-without-a-country statelessness
11 NOV 2009
Kilometer 1,169, moving down from the cold of Sarahan on 11 NOV 2009. My first target for this phase is 1000 statute miles or approximately 1,610 kilometers. The goalposts of this work keep on moving ahead of me.
The village elder who […]

SEVENTY THIRD DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel on the 133rd day of his sojourner stateless freedom
30 October 2009
“I have not the slightest doubt that, but for the pair, truth and non-violence, mankind will be doomed.  We can have the vision of that truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of the villages”  ~ Mahatma […]

SEVENTY SECOND DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner stateless freedom
29 October 2009
“I have not the slightest doubt that, but for the pair, truth and non-violence, mankind will be doomed.  We can have the vision of that truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of the villages”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi
MAHATMA GANDHI ON INDUSTRIALIZATION
Compiled by Sri […]

SEVENTY FIRST DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner stateless freedom
28 October 2009
“I have not the slightest doubt that, but for the pair, truth and non-violence, mankind will be doomed.  We can have the vision of that truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of the villages”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi
***
Gandhi’s internationalism was a sociological and […]

SEVENTYTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner stateless freedom
27 October 2009
“I have not the slightest doubt that, but for the pair, truth and non-violence, mankind will be doomed.  We can have the vision of that truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of the villages”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi
MAHATMA GANDHI ON PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
By Ashu […]

SIXTY NINTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner stateless freedom
26 October 2009
“I have not the slightest doubt that, but for the pair, truth and non-violence, mankind will be doomed.  We can have the vision of that truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of the villages”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi
MAHATMA GANDHI ON PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
By […]

SIXTY EIGTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner stateless freedom
25 October 2009
“I have not the slightest doubt that, but for the pair, truth and non-violence, mankind will be doomed.  We can have the vision of that truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of the villages”
LETTER TO H.S.L.POLAK, [LONDON], October 14, 1909
•    They saw […]

FIFTY SIXTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, stateless, paperless sojourner free
13 October 2009
EXCERPTS FROM HIND SWARAJ
by Mahatma Gandhi, November 1909
•    “There is no end to the victims destroyed in the fire of civilization.  Its deadly effect is that people come under its scorching flames believing it to be all good.  They become utterly irreligious […]

FIFTY FOURTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, homeless paperless stateless sojourner free
11 October 2009
Gandhi Quotations From Samyojana 2008
(Society For Integrated Development of Himalaya, Mussoorie)
God is an unchanging law.  What I speak of is an eternal principle (shashrat niyam) which does not change with changing circumstance.  This law is the truth and that is why […]

FIFTY THIRD DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, homeless and stateless sojourner free
10 October 2009
Gandhi Quotations From Samyojana 2008
(Society For Integrated Development of Himalaya, Mussoorie)
The Government’s power is maintained not because of its machine guns, but because of our deluded love for it.  This delusion has three forms: love for the council, which is comparable […]

FIFTY SECOND DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, homeless stateless sojourner free
9 October 2009
Gandhi Quotations From Samyojana 2008
(Society For Integrated Development of Himalaya, Mussoorie)
India is laying ground down under the heel of modern civilization.  It is groaning under the monster’s terrible weight.  There is yet time to escape it, but every day makes it more […]

FIFTY FIRST DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free of state
8 October 2009
Excerpts from “Samyojana”
(Society for Integrated Development of Himalaya, Mussoorie, 2008)
Educated India is seized with paralyzing fear.  We speak our opinions secretly.  In public we say things we do not really believe in.  We fear consequences, and therefore we are afraid to tell […]

FIFTIETH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free and stateless
7 October 2009
Lack of finance is never a real difficulty to a sincere worker.  Finances follow you if you represent a real cause. (Mahatma Gandhi in Tendulkar 1960).
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity […]

FORTY SEVENTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free
4 October 2009
For Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we must give the villages their proper place. (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi).
What appealed to me most in Tolstoy’s life is that he practiced what he preached, and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of […]

FORTY SIXTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free
3 October 2009
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen noise & din. (Mahatma Gandhi in Prabha 1955)…
Simplicity is the essence of universality. (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi)…
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the […]

FORTY FOURTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free
1 October 2009
Renunciation is everyone’s right. (Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi)…
All research is useless if it is not allied to internal research. (Mahatma Gandhi in Tendulkar 1960)…
I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world. (CW)…
Woman is […]

FORTY FIFTH DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, student of Satyagraha, sojourner free
2 October 2009, the 105th day of his paperless stateless freedom
TODAY, 2nd OCTOBER, IS GANDHI JAYENTI
To me Truth is God & there is no way to find Truth except the way of non-violence. (Mahatma Gandhi in Tendulkar 1960)…
If my non-violence is to be […]

FORTY THIRD DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free
30 September 2009
For a non-violent person, the whole world is one family.  He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him. (Mahatma Gandhi in Tendulkar 1960)…
Obedience to the law of bread labor will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society. (Tendular 1960)…
Oppression […]

FORTY FIRST DAY REPORT
GANDHI SWARAJ PADYATRA
by Jeff Knaebel, sojourner free
28 September 2009
To me Truth is God & there is no way to find Truth except the way of non-violence. (Mahatma Gandhi in Tendulkar 1960)…
For a non-violent person, the whole world is one family.  He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him. (Tendulkar 1960)…
Obedience […]