Barrier: (n) a fence or other obstacle that prevents movement or access.
Prejudice is not just what I feel. It is also what is felt.
Candidly, I can have the most open heart in the world and be confronted with closed minds. Prejudice does not go away until the barriers are torn down.
A fence is a confirmation that isolation is required.
So when we talk about culture, customs and attributes of a particular race or nationality, we are creating barriers. Therefore we become overly optimistic about our ability to accept difference.
We are only able to comprehend difference when it contains some elements of similarity. In other words, “this is the way you celebrate Christmas, and it’s like the way I celebrate Christmas in this way.”
I am greatly concerned that in our attempt to tout universality, we are actually building walls between one another which only force us into deeper loneliness.
- I don’t like barriers. I tear them down.
- I don’t like it when people say that some clump reacts in a certain way.
- I don’t like it when religion is used to separate the sheep from the goats, instead of finding unity within the herd.
- I don’t like barriers of righteousness or boundaries of nuisance.
- What will it take for us to finally realize that the more we try to be open-minded, the less we’re actually able to focus our love and attention?
Barriers tell us we’re different.
They are dangerous because once we believe we’re different … we quietly start pursuing our differences.
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