Different people identify shades of the same color as different colors altogether. We must try to understand the world in others’ defined colors to know which shade of a color they call “green” is what we are convinced is “blue.” Only when we view and relate to another’s conception of green as our blue can we truly love them because, for the first time, we envision the world from their shades of the rainbow’s colors. We can now finally understand each other.
It is the miscommunication of defined shades that causes dialogues to collapse, by failing to successfully express to one another visions of rainbows. We can, nevertheless, begin with the identical identification of a rainbow. Together, we can then patiently fill in the definition by classifying colors we name differently into a unified order, and consciously adding those we learn from each other’s experiences with various shades. Lovingly, we learn to create the entire spectrum, from what we were able to see individually to everything we can feel collectively.
Inclusion requires an embracing acceptance, by way of peaceful open-mindedness, of what could otherwise forever remain alien to love.
