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‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you’, wrote the poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.
The moment we stop listening to diverse opinions is also when we stop learning. Because the truth is we don’t learn much from sameness and monotony. We usually learn from differences.
wisdom, which connects the mind and the heart, activates emotional intelligence, expands empathy and understanding, allows us to reach beyond the lonely confines of our own minds and engage with the rest of humanity, to listen to them and learn from them.
Democracy, which is essentially about compromise and negotiation, conflict resolution and pluralism, a system of checks and balances,
A human being, every human being, is boundless and contains multitudes.
From ‘Song of Myself’, a poem by Walt Whitman, ‘I am large, I contain multitudes.’
‘The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world as if it were nothing at all. No other loss occurs so quietly;
one of our main challenges: How do we simultaneously remain engaged and manage to remain sane?
