MEDITATION

Can Spiritual Wisdom on Diversity Help Us See God’s Radiant Love in Every Face?

A contemplative journey into celebrating diversity as a sacred expression

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Have you ever felt unsettled by someone different from you through a glance, word, or a difference in lifestyle? In those moments, the gap between us and them can feel wide as fear whispers that sameness is safer. But here’s the deeper truth. Difference isn’t what divides us.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
—Audre Lorde

Poet Audre Lorde wrote that as an investment in social and spiritual wisdom. The invitation is to step out of the illusion of comfort and into the spaciousness of compassion, unity, and Divine Love. When we honor the unique expressions of humanity (culture, skin tones, beliefs, and/or languages), we taste, feel, and see what it means to be whole because of diversity, not despite it.

Beloved Source,
You are the Breath in all beings,
the Radiance shining through the faces of strangers,
and the pulse of Compassion that unites us.