The price of unity is sharing: the disciples on the way to Emmaus do not recognize their fellow traveler until they break bread with him. In the ancient Passover paradigm, we must recognize and know the other as no-stranger; then come the unity and sharing. In the New Testament Passover, we must first love, even a stranger, and share our substance in order to achieve recognition and unity.

Madonna Kolbenschlag, Eastward Toward Eve