I and I

We wish to be treated well, so we should treat others as we wish to be treated. Most people (and religions) agree, but the step from idea to practice is a difficult one. Religion tends to create separate groups, and from these differences, conflicts arise. What starts out as we will treat others kindly, turns into they are not like us quite readily.


This problem has not escaped the attention of some who claim that problems start when we see others as separate from ourselves. This is where "I and I" comes from. A simple attempt, drawn from thousands of years of religion and philosophy, that proposes that all of us may in fact be all of us.