As the ecstatic poet, Rumi, once said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” A similar point can be made for seeking a more perfect union: Let us not seek to be more unified, but rather, seek to dismantle the outdated institutions, systems, and beliefs that perpetuate a paradigm of disconnection and isolation, and replace them with policies that foster compassion, empathy, and macro awareness.