The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto (ed. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1974)