IF PEOPLE ONLY KNEW
If people only knew how precious they are—how close we already are, how much is being entrusted to us in every breath—harm would become inconceivable, not forbidden, but impossible to imagine.
I am reaching for words because what I wish to point towards lives before language, in the place where harm becomes unthinkable—not forbidden, not condemned, simply inconceivable.
I want so much for people to know how precious they are—all of us, gathered together here on this earth. To know it deeply enough that to violate the sanctity of any sentient being would feel impossible, not because of rules or fear, but because one would feel the tearing of something sacred within oneself.
If people only knew that nothing here is expendable, that no life is peripheral, that every being is held in the same field of belonging—then violence would not need to be argued against. It would simply fail to arise.
If people only knew how intimate this is, how close we already are, how much is being trusted to us in every breath, every encounter—we would move more gently.
We would listen longer. We would recognize one another before we ever reached for harm.
Nigel Lott
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