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When we can’t get along with someone, we like to blame it on that person’s faults: stupidity, incompetence, outrageous actions, aggression or some other evil.

The real reason is none of these. It is that the world is broken, and we are the shattered fragments.

And all that stops us from coming back together is that we each imagine ourselves to be whole.

Based on letters and talks of the Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman. To order Rabbi Freeman’s book, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.
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August 22, 2011
nice
Anonymous
sanford, florida
August 20, 2011
Fragments
However I do not imagine myself to be whole.

So there must be some other reason.... such as the fact that I am not whole.
hymie
August 19, 2011
Carmen
My self is in more fragments than my enemies. Trouble is that I am screaming from the top of my lungs that I am right. I may be right but I am not being smart about it. I'm trying so hard to put my own pieces back together. Thank you for sharing your story.
Harry J Shelhamer
Allentown, PA
August 19, 2011
Getting Along
Yes, I agree with some other comments. I think we all know the Not Getting Along well, I want to know too what do we do next when we all are just broken pieces!
Anonymous
Forest Hills, NY/USA
August 19, 2011
RE:My enemies are broken fragments
Interestingly I am living quite the same problem in my life, but my interpretation of that is not that my enemies are broken fragments while I am a whole piece. My interpretation is that we both are very whole pieces, being one the essence of evilness and the other the essence of goodness.

I am waiting to see the winner of this excruciating battle, and I hope to see him(her/me in the case) very soon.
Carmen
August 19, 2011
My enemies are broken fragments
I've been many places and have met people of every culture on the earth and really enjoyed and got along very well with each of them. However In my own country there are the only 3 people on the earth that I don't get along with and not that I've not attempted to extend the offering of peace to them but they have snubbed me over and over. This troubles me because when I clear away the debris that they hide behind as their reason to fight with me their motivation is money. I don't owe them money. I pay them money and they benefit from it. The one thing holding back peace and harmony, balance between the animal and the spiritual, is their good fortune of money. If money was taken out of the equation they might seek me out for my friendship, my insight, my inner strengths to help them become stronger. I am striving not to spread evil gossip and to be a behave in a way that others might want to be like me. Money makes peace impossible among my enemies.
Harry J Shelhamer
Allentown, PA
August 19, 2011
so what are we supposed to do?
Anonymous
isr
October 4, 2010
red
look just get real and walk away
keya
laurel, MS.
December 2, 2008
Getting along
there are two vines that grow two bodies, if the body that is broken and shattered seeks to critique uprightness, they are the blind leading the blind, if the shattered looks away from those who are oppressed unjustly and treated unfairly excusing it as fate of ones life, they are the root cause to the bodies dysfunction, to repair the world one must focus on the least important amongst them.
henk
Buffalo, NY
December 2, 2008
I needed this
I have been studying abroad in Canada (only 8 days unil I get to leave!) and I have not been getting along with my roommate at all. I feel like she has done some really outrageous things but this quote helped me to realize that there is more to her than I know. I will try to be nicer. Thank you.
Anonymous
flagstaff, az
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