How to Coexist
🔥 A Blessing for Coexistence:
“May your faith deepen. May mine deepen.
May your path bring you healing. May mine bring me healing.
May we meet in the places where justice, compassion, and love overlap.
And may the world be better because we both walked here.”How to Coexist — Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Evangelical, Wiccan, Catholic (and more)
1. Begin with Shared Humanity
“Before I am my label, I am a human.
Before you are your label, you are a human.”
No belief can undo the truth that we breathe the same air, bleed the same blood, grieve, love, and long for safety, meaning, and belonging.
2. Root in Humility, Not Superiority
Every tradition holds truth.
Every tradition is also incomplete because it views the Infinite through a particular window.
“I don’t need to erase my faith to respect yours.
And I don’t need to prove my rightness to honor your path.”
3. Curiosity Over Judgment
“Tell me what brings you peace.”
“Tell me what your rituals mean to you.”
“Tell me how you pray, or if you do.”
Curiosity is the bridge. Judgment is the wall.
4. Boundaries Without Harm
It’s okay to disagree. It’s okay to have lines.
Protect your own beliefs.
Respect when others do the same.
“I don’t have to agree to honor your right to exist in your truth.”
5. Listen for the Echoes
Across these paths are shared threads:
Light in the darkness.
Love of neighbor.
Reverence for creation.
The sacredness of the word, the ritual, the gathering, the mystery.
Fasting, feasting, washing, blessing, forgiving.
Not identical—but resonant.
6. Repair Where There Is Harm
These communities have wounded each other across history.
Coexistence means naming the pain—without shame overwhelming the repair.
Acknowledge harm.
Listen.
Apologize where it’s yours.
Commit to a better way forward.
7. Reject Fundamentalism of Any Kind
When any group claims the total truth and others as less-than, coexistence shatters.
Stand against supremacist theologies—whether religious, secular, or cultural.
“There is no need to diminish another’s light to keep yours burning.”
8. Show Up for Each Other
When a synagogue is vandalized, show up.
When a mosque is targeted, show up.
When a church is attacked, show up.
When witches are mocked or maligned, show up.
“If it harms one of us, it harms the web of all of us.”
9. Pray (or Hope) Side by Side
Not always together in words—but together in presence.
You pray in Arabic. I pray in Hebrew.
You cast circle. I kneel.
You sing hymns. I light candles.
The Divine, by any name, is large enough for us all.
10. Understand This Truth:
“Difference is not danger.
Diversity is not division.
Uniformity is not unity.”
Real unity allows for full difference to remain—and still chooses love, respect, and cooperation.
