In our conversations about echo chambers and the necessity of speaking across difference, we often forget the importance — and difficulty — of disagreeing with the people most like us. On what's lost when we don't make that effort.
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Can we stop trying to fool each other and start telling the truth, “lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark?”
To change another to better fit our own ideals is not love; it is domination. Instead, to truly love is to engage joyfully in our differences and to bring out the best in our unique potential — in personal relationships, and in community.
A poem to honor the commonalities that run deeper than our cultural divides — from the San Francisco of the Beat Generation to a modest dive on the Jersey Shore.
To live fully and well, we need diversity — in nature and in our lives together.
A sense of mindfulness can help us recalibrate our reactions to those we judge as different or dangerous.
Can we be more generous in understanding those who are different from us? Parker Palmer recounts lessons learned over a lifetime on our true proximity and kinship with “the other.”
Civilizations elevate the best in cultures and people. A composer encourages us to rethink the phrase "clash of civilizations" and, by definition, civilization can only fuel human flourishing.
Who is "the other"? A call to cultivate deep curiosity for the lives and struggles and to move away from the "Us-versus-Them" mentality — including a reflective exercise you can perform right now, wherever you are.
December 20, 2014
Postcards for Hanukkah, The Fifth Night: I Am the Embodiment of Infinite Possibilities
Night five of our series. A poem inspired by a Harlem church experience by a secular Jew paired with a Septimus photo.
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