Once We Understand

Our personal reality can be informed by unconditional love and peace or mistrust and violence. The wise understand that those who engage in unethical or harmful behavior, do so out of deep ignorance. They don’t understand that in hurting others, they harm themselves. Like leaves on a tree, we’re all sustained and animated by the same energetic force. We breathe the same air. Ignorance keeps us stuck in intolerance, hatred and the desire to punish those who don’t conform. Once we realize that we’re all like individual waves originating from the same ocean, we’ll understand that treating one another with love and compassion is…

The only way.