There is an ancient belonging beneath all that divides us. Before the world taught us the names of borders and enemies, we belonged to the same earth. We woke beneath the same great sky, drank from the hidden generosity of rivers, and carried within us the same longing to love and be loved. Somewhere beneath the noise of history, the heart still remembers this kinship. Before We Learned to Divide is a contemplative journey towards that remembering. Through the wisdom of the natural world and reflections on compassion, difference, forgiveness, sorrow, and peace, it invites us to consider what might become possible when we cease to meet one another first as strangers and begin again as fellow travellers beneath one sky. Perhaps peace does not begin in distant chambers of power. Perhaps it begins quietly—in the human heart, whenever we remember that another life is not foreign to our own. And perhaps the way towards a gentler world has been waiting within us all along.