Mary Oliver - Poet
““I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.””
We would do well to stand willingly and gladly in this world’s otherness — standing with and grappling with the other as our antidote to confusion and hate.