The Work To Do

Of all the information I absorbed this week, perhaps the most powerful was a quote from a Rabbi who lived way back in 110 BC. His name was Hillel the Elder, and when asked to explain the Torah he said simply:

Love thy neighbor as you would yourself. All the rest is commentary.

These divisive times have certainly stretched my imagination and my faith in others, and this is a strong way in. It is one thing I can know to be true. The belief is immovable.

But the truth is a vapor until we act on it. The bridge between us won’t be built by philosophy or speeches, it will be built by action. It will be built by doing. And that doing is Radical Optimism.

So for me, I start today. Doing something kind.

POV: Einstein’s ‘Parallax View’ states it is physically impossible for two people to see the same thing the same way, because we are standing in two different points in space and therefore the light from the object viewed reaches us at different times. The physics behind perception.