Otherness has always been how we define ourselves — by contrast and distinction from what is unlike us, we find out what we are like: As I have
previously written, we are what remains after everything we are not. But otherness can also be the most beautiful ground for connection — in slicing through the surface unlikenesses, we can discover a deep wellspring of kinship, which in turn enlarges our understanding of ourselves and the other.
“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion,” Mary Oliver wrote in her moving account of
what saved her life.
“Standing within this otherness… can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”/.../
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