I found myself reflecting on the words of Howard Thurman as I - TopicsExpress



          

I found myself reflecting on the words of Howard Thurman as I struggled to write this afternoon; I hope you appreciate this quote: In the conflicts between man and man, between group and group, between nation and nation, the loneliness of the seeker for community is sometimes unendurable. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always he must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate; he must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that he will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. He will know that for all men to be alike is the death of life in man, and yet perceive harmony that transcends all diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance. From The Search For Common Ground; An Inquiry into The Basis of Mans Experience of Community.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:13:25 +0000

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