Maya Angelou said it so beautifully, “We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance.” Are you being a warrior? Are you fighting on the frontlines? Do you welcome people with open arms, if they’re different than you?
At the beginning of the movie Babe, the narrator says, "This is the story of an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever."
How do you change your heart? You must be brave.
Yet as Mark Nepo says,
"Even the bravest among us, who give their lives to care for others, go numb with fatigue, when the heart can take in no more, when we need time to digest all we meet. Overloaded and overwhelmed, we start to pull back from the world, so we can internalize what the world keeps giving us. Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to return: to open our hearts once they’ve closed, to open our souls once they’ve shied away, to soften our minds once they’ve been hardened by the storms of our day."
~–Mark Nepo, "Hearing the Cries of the World" from Parabola magazine
There is in this world too much violence. Who are the warriors against ignorance? One of them was Gandhi, who said:
"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. It's seat is in the heart, and must be an inseparable part of our being."
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| Biography of Mahatma Gandhi |
Love is blind and when we overcome prejudice, as portrayed in the movie The Blind Side, great things will happen. Love will finally be the transformation that saves this world.
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