The Mercy of Differences

The Mercy of Differences


Maybe we have needed to be separated by languages and cultures and distances in order to spiritually develop into the divinity for which we have been created.

For in the struggles to understand, we learn empathy.

In the difficulties to tolerate differences, we learn mercy.

In the extraordinary encounter with those that are different than ourselves, we encounter a transcendent divinity that is greater than us all.



Fr John Brian Paprock

from key note address "Human Rights and Spiritual Development"
delivered at Wisconsin State Capitol December 10, 2008
http://frjohbrian.blogspot.com/2008/12/human-rights-and-spiritual-development.html

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