Spiritual unity is diversity embraced and protected.
-- Richard Rohr
This mostly feels like a platitude until you personally have experienced what it is like to not be embraced or protected in your difference or uniqueness—then you know more deeply how true this is. I have gone through an experience like this recently—“now I know” more of what this feels like. It’s funny (well actually, it's sad) how so often it takes our own experience of something in order to engage our compassion for the experience of others.
