What is understanding? What does it mean to really understand someone?
There's a quote from Malcom X, who often is associated with hate, but he said something really beautiful. He said,
We need more light about one another. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience and patience creates unity.
If you actually walk through that statement,Light creates understanding.
When we talk about building bridges of understanding, then I have to be willing to sit at a table and do away with my conclusions. It takes vulnerability to create understanding.
You know what, tell me what I don't know, tell me what you want to know, what you want me to know you, know about your religion, know about your culture, know about your way of life.
If we believe that human beings have been created in a way that's essentially good. Where are you and why are you there and tell me about yourself, I am not going to force you to work within my moral framework or within my conclusions of you. I actually want you to represent yourself.
When we learn to understand each other, that way, we are able to love on another. When we love one another, we're patient with one another, because we are understanding of each others concerns and why people are in so much pain and that patience creates unity.
The only way we can get to that unity, is not in the name of some meaningless empty usage of the word peace. It's not going to come through treaties, it's not going to come through forced agreements. What it will come through is actually building bridges of understanding.
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