Why ... everything...

I don't understand and you presume my dysfunction

I don't understand and I presume your blindness

you don't understand and you presume your own wisdom

you don't understand and I presume your bitterness

I don't understand and you presume your boundaries ignored

I don't understand and I presume your attempts at control rather than unity

you don't understand and you presume betrayal

you don't understand and I presume unfairness

Others don't understand and believe they do...

and we are all completely wrong.

Our Religious Society endures as a community of friends who take thought for outward society by first taking care of one another. Friends are advised to maintain love and unity, to avoid tale-bearing and detraction, and to settle differences promptly and in a manner free from resentment and all forms of inward violence. Live affectionately as friends, entering with sympathy into the joys and sorrows of one another's daily lives. Visit one another. Be alert to give help and ready to receive it. Bear the burdens of one another's failings; share the buoyancy of one another's strengths.

Advice II Faith and Practice Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1997 p. 83