The Dialectic of Reconciliation - A Fragment

And what is required to achieve unity, peace and reconciliation of the most disparate views? Many things, but one thing; the will to do so, which means, a certain attitude, the attitude of open-mindedness, the attitude of understanding, which is the will to hear what one does not think, which is merely the willingness to listen. “If you will not listen, you cannot hear me.” If you will not listen, I cannot speak with you, only to you, as to an uncompromising wall. And if you are such a wall, that wall is your strength for it cannot be breached by anyone; the wall can only fall if it desires to fall, only crumble if it desires dust instead; which means, the unhearing walls of people only fall when they would rather have no belief at all than have only their own belief, rather have and be a desert than a castle, but we have not yet discovered the oasis which is real belief, which has no firm, definite limits enclosing it, the oasis which transitively flows between perfection and nothingness.