In some circles diversity is feared. Closely aligned with affirmative action, diversity is taken as a threat to the status and standing of the majority. Some people really believe that unless you look like or talk "American", you don't belong here. Lost in this view is any connection to the origins of our nation as the "melting pot" of the world.
The real gift and beauty of diversity is its inherent irony. It opens our mind to the richness of human experience and opens our eyes to the fact that, no matter how different from each other we may seem on the surface, we are fundamentally one united by the same longings of the heart. Imagine the impact genuine diversity could have on the face of the earth... if instead of fearing each other we embraced each other in partnership in this thing we call "life." Diversity is a spiritual value that cries out to be an alternative to the "do it the way of the mighty and powerful" attitude prevalent in today's world.
Sisters and brothers all are we!
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PLAYING WITH IDEAS
About Me
- Don Neale Jr.
- You could say I've spent my entire 56 years trying to figure out what this riddle called life is all about. It seems the pieces to this puzzle - good and evil, purpose and meaninglessness, contentment and restlessness, opportunity and hardship, joy and suffering, self and humanity, life and death, eternal and mortal, Creator and created - simply do not (or cannot) fit together. At this point in the journey I've come to appreciate that the answers I've sought - at times desparately - were never "out there," but were instead within me all along just waiting to be discovered. The spiritually enlightened commonly tell us they offer nothing we do not already possess. How true. How very true.
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