It is only the habit of our egocentric mind that divides the world into “us and them.” More precisely, it is our inability—or refusal—to see the us in “them” and the them in what we take to be “us.” Such failure of imagination is seen in every realm, from personal relationships to international politics. Simply put, it reflects that clinging to identity which is our way of belonging to a group. And if we identify with a group of any dimension narrower than all humanity, there must then be others who, by definition, do not belong and to whom, we may believe at least unconsciously, we are
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