Thank you for your interest in helping to create the beloved community. This pledge gives us gentle guidance to help us live more loving, peaceful, and joyful lives, while also helping us address the injustices around us so that all life may be safe, happy, and peaceful.

In honor of the courageous members of the civil rights movement and their worthy aims, this pledge is modeled on the Commitment Card that that appears in Martin Luther King, Jr’s book Why We Can’t Wait.

The Boundless Love Project’s Beloved Community Pledge

To help peacefully create a global beloved community where all life thrives, I pledge to:

1. TRUST and OBEY my conscience as the highest authority.

2. MEDITATE daily for the benefit and welfare of all people, all beings, and all life forms.

3. CONTEMPLATE, STUDY, and LEARN the ways of love on a daily basis.

4. RECOGNIZE the inherent worth and value of all life and TREAT both friend and foe with courtesy, dignity, and respect.

5. WALK and TALK in the manner of love, for love is our most authentic and fundamental nature.

6. REMEMBER always that as we work to create the global beloved community, we seek peace and reconciliation, not dominance and retribution.

7. REFRAIN from the violence of mind, heart, tongue, and fist.

8. SACRIFICE personal wants and desires for the benefit and welfare of all life.

9. SEEK to lovingly perform regular acts of service for others.

10. ENDEAVOR to maintain good mental, emotional, and bodily health.

I recognize that adopting these worthy commitments is a journey and not a destination. Thus, whenever I break these commitments, I will FORGIVE myself, RECOMMIT to them, and PERSIST in following them for as long as it takes to embody them fully and create the global beloved community within myself and the world around me.

Having seriously considered this decision, I sign this pledge with the DETERMINATION to PERSEVERE.

Contemplation Period

The text above is the full pledge. Before signing the Beloved Community Pledge, consider listening to or reading the following:

• What is the Beloved Community and Why is it Important?

• Creating the Beloved Community

In addition, here is a pdf of the beloved community pledge for you to download, print, and frequently review.

If after given this decision heartfelt consideration, you still want to sign this pledge, then please complete the form below. Thank you!

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Thank you for taking the Beloved Community Pledge! Together, we can peacefully create a global beloved community where all life thrives.

Now that you have signed the pledge, work to keep it alive in your life! Here are some suggestions on how to do that:

• Maintain a daily meditation practice. Use our numerous guided meditations to aid you in this.

• Take our Creating the Beloved Community course at your own pace to understand each of the commitments more fully, and help integrate them into your life.

• Review the pledge daily.

• Memorize the pledge.

• Tell your close friends and family members that you have signed the pledge and ask for their support and help in aiding you to live up to these high standards.

• Find some pledge buddies who have also taken the commitment so you can support each other in this worthy endeavor. To do this, you might want to share the pledge on your social media accounts and encourage your friends to read it over and consider adopting it.

• While trying to do all of the commitments, focus on going deeper into one of them per day. Read the summary of that commitment in this article, and focus on really living that commitment impeccably for the day. In this way you will review and go deeper into each commitment every ten days. Keep cycling through them like this.

• While trying to do all of the commitments, focus on fully integrating one of the ten commitments into your attitude and behavior for a week or longer. This focus will help you to go deeper and gain much wisdom and understanding for each commitment. Then go onto the next one until you have worked through all ten of them in this way. Then start over and do it again. Taking the Creating the Beloved Community course can help you with this.

By working with the commitments in this way, you will see steady progress on incorporating them into your life. Remember, however, that spiritual progress has a cyclical rather than linear nature. Even as you progress, there will still be ups and downs, and backsliding.

When overwhelmed by apathy, disappointment, frustration, or anger remember that these states are temporary and impersonal. Do your best to remain skillful. Focus on self-care, and keep going. Every moment is another opportunity to start again. If you don't give up, you are bound to be successful.

Thanks again for your kind, compassionate, and loving intentions to help all life thrive. If you want to do more, consider volunteering for the Boundless Love Project. If you have an idea for how to benefit others, we may be able to help you do it. If you want to help, but don't know what to do, we have lots of volunteer positions available and we can find one that is right for you. If you are interested in volunteering, let us know via our contact page and we will get back in touch with you.

Congratulations on taking this monumental commitment to improve your life and the lives of all people, beings, and life forms. We are here to support you and wish you and us much success in peacefully creating a global beloved community.

May love and wisdom protect and guide you,

Freeman and all of us at the Boundless Love Project