It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
Interpretation
Our conflicts arise from words rather than our differences.
This quote by Yehuda Berg emphasizes that the root of societal friction and conflict is not the inherent differences between people—such as race, language, or religion—but rather the language and rhetoric used by individuals and leaders. It suggests that words carry the power to foster division or unity, highlighting the importance of mindful communication in promoting peace and understanding.
In practice
During a community meeting discussing race relations, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of respectful communication.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
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