It's two people dropping the pretense of being know-it-alls. It's two people, two warriors, dropping their weapons and reaching toward each other.
Elizabeth Lesser
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Take the Other to Lunch, TEDWomen 2010; Two complete consecutive sentences describing dialogue across differences (ubuntu work). Weapons is a metaphor; her own closing remarks, not the Rumi quotation that follows.
- Take the Other to Lunch, TEDWomen 2010
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