The Baha’i teachings emphasize unity as being of the utmost importance for humanity’s current stage of development.
It occurred to me today that the need for unity is cooked into our language.
Machines, humans, families, societies, and everything created involves the coming together of different parts. The simplest of conjunctions of parts is a pair – two parts together. If any two parts within the whole become disconnected, those parts need to be re-paired in order for the whole to be fully functioning again.
So the word for fixing things reminds us how healing and return to full-functioning often happens, even in a complicated creation. “Re-pairing” is needed.
Unity is what repairs the world.