On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based o — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based o — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based o — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based o — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based o — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
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On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
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