Invisible Borders

According to my premise, if peace and love are the releasing and alignment of free energy, understanding is the necessary application used to release free energy from perceptual molds which hold human beings socially captive and in an illusory state of segregation.

Since understanding is the key which unlocks peace and love, and understanding can be likened to building bridges across segregated units of identity or culture, crossing borders is an inevitable practice for anyone undertaking such a treacherous task.

There are many degradations of borders, from gross to very subtle. For instance, when I drove from the US to Canada there was a very concrete, hard to miss, border complete with barricades and border guards. When I traveled from Arizona to California, there was another border, but less obtuse, mostly signified by a welcome sign neatly tucked away at the side of the road.

There are also social borders, class borders, gender borders, generational borders, sexual borders, and many more, I'm sure, not mentioned here.

The more subtle a border, the more powerful its capacity to keep things separated, because it is hard to be cognizant of the fact that it exists.

Therefore, the invisible borders are the ones that are the most difficult to navigate.

I will say that my vision of peace-making is not the erasing of borders, but rather the building of bridges between borders that otherwise can't allow a person to cross smoothly from one unit of identity to the next. So it's more like making a quilt, or patching together a puzzle.

Each time one crosses a border, one's own horizon and perimeter of self expands, as the capacity to understand diverse units of identity expands.

Every time we cross a border, we have the power to build a bridge.

The invisible borders, are the borders we take for granted. They exist between us and the people we love.

To promote understanding, one has to constantly evaluate one's own invisible borders.
These are the questions the invisible borders evoke. Where is the segregation in a situation that doesn't overtly account for any segregation?