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 throughout history who remained true to the highest ideals while addressing the most difficult
problems and conflicts of the real world.
As a tireless advocate for social justice and human rights, Dear has followed that path in his own life, and in
Living Peace he describes his journey. Breaking down the life of peace into three parts an inner journey, a public
journey, and the journey of all humanity he shares the spiritual practices that have sustained him and teaches
readers how to integrate these practices into their own lives.