Dispersion leads to gathering together.  During the autumn and winter months water freezes into ice and then when the warm winds of spring come, the rigidity is dissolved  and the elements that have been dispersed in ice floes are reunited.  It is the same with the  human mind.  The heart becomes rigid through selfishness and hardness leading to separation from others.  Gentleness and tactfulness will dissolve the blockage, assist the breakdown of factions and enable the process of reconciliation.  One individual's well-being cannot be separated from that of other people.  One person's suffering will affect all concerned in some way.  A consciousness of the common origin of all creatures erodes all barriers just as when a boat is in  difficulty on the water all hands  must unite in a joint task.