Building Bridges

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”― Joseph Fort Newton

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”― Bill Bullard

Less assumption, judgment, fear, indifference
More questions, listening, gentleness, humanity
Multiply rather than divide
Compound human interest
Invitation, welcoming, belonging
Kindness, compassion, peace
Build bridges
Make connections
Cast light

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for.”― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking