Now is the time to connect ever more tightly through our common humanity, and for each of us to live it daily through empathy, compassion, understanding and mutual respect.
"National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country's future, it is necessary to stop the incitement and to stop violence," he said.
In our interview for my Live Brave podcast, she shared with me her theoretical framework for self-compassion which consists of three core components - self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness of suffering.
Rejecting your common humanity and sense of country, you're playing into the polarization game instead of defeating it.
Our vision is a nation where Americans embrace our common humanity, and children of every race and ethnicity have equal opportunities to thrive.
Our denial of our common humanity and the pain of those outside of our social circles or rung on the ladder or race or profession is blowing up in our collective faces.
"Self-compassion involves being kind to oneself when confronting personal inadequacies or situational difficulties, framing the imperfection of life in terms of common humanity, and being mindful of negative emotions so that one neither suppresses nor ruminates on them". (Neff &Beretvas, 2012).
At the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razaksaid that "we must respect our common humanity" and the fleeing of millions of Syrians from their own country should be a world concern.
It is a moment of indeterminate morality, one in which the centrifugal forces of contempt, resentment, and racial superiority are pitted against the ideal of common humanity and the possibility of a civic society.
"Through the uncorrupted eyes of a child, she showed us the beautiful complexity of our common humanity, and the importance of striving for justice in our own lives, our communities, and our country".
