Rumi on War & Conflict

Every war and every conflict between human beings
has happened because of some disagreement about names.

It's such an unnecessary foolishness, because just beyond the arguing
there's a long table of companionship, set and waiting for us to sit down.

What is praised is one, so the praise is one too,
many jugs being poured into a huge basin.

All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and vanity.

Sunlight looks slightly different on this wall than it does on that wall,
and a lot different on this other one,
but it is still one light.

We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light, and when we praise,
we pour them back in.

~Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi