Let’s Challenge prejudices and discover commonalities!

We all have assumptions about others and use collective labels for each other or for some minority groups or clan like the “Muslim fundamentalist,” or “terrorists” that prevent us from appreciating our different but collective individuality.

I challenge people to change their own preconceptions, preconceived ideas and notions about people and how the world should be and prejudices by searching for what they share with people and have in common rather than what divides or separates them.

How Empathy Can Overcome Hatred And Change Our Minds!

An episode from the history of US race relations illustrates how this can happen.

Claiborne Paul Ellis was born into a poor white family in Durham, North Carolina in 1927. Finding it hard to make ends meet working in a garage and believing African Americans were the cause of all his troubles (same as the whites of the same mindset during this period in history), he followed his father’s footsteps and joined the Ku Klux Klan, eventually rising to the top position of Exalted Cyclops of his local KKK branch.

 

In 1971 he was invited as a prominent local citizen in the community in recognition to a 10-day community meeting to tackle racial tensions in schools and was chosen to head a steering committee with Ann Atwater, a black activist he despised.

But working with her exploded his prejudices about African Americans and black in general. This situation gave him the opportunity to open up his preconceived ideas and notions about African Americans and blacks in general and he saw how wrong he had been.

He saw that she shared the same problems of poverty as he had and he thought to himself in disbelief, “I was beginning to look at a black person, shake hands with him, and see him as a human being,” he recalled of his experience on the committee.

“It was almost like being’ born again.” And having seen the light and being set free. He finally could erase his bias and shed all the preconceived notions he had about them and finally can now see them as fellow human beings on this journey of a lifetime.

On the final night of the meeting, he stood in front of a thousand people and tore up his Klan membership card and to him that signaled the end of prejudice and racial discrimination which he shouldn’t have had, had he truly seen the truth up until this moment.

Ellis later became a labor organizer for a union whose membership was 70 percent African American and blacks. He and Ann remained friends for the rest of their lives.

There may be no better example to show power of empathy to others and how wrong we have been in all these wrong ideas and notions and general assumptions about others.

We need to learn how to overcome all the hatred, enmity, resentment, bitterness we feel towards each other and truly take a proper look at each other again and see how alike and similar we all are and in this way, we change our minds and eventually our lives and those of others.

It’s Time For A Radical Revolution In Human Relationships!

We mostly tend to believe that empathy, tolerance, compassion, human sympathy or whatever you may wish to call it, should be reserved for the people living on the social margins of life, like the poor and destitute of the society or those who are suffering.

This is necessary and okay but it is not enough!

The Time For Change Is Here!

We need to look onto each other or one another like family and have no segregation nor discrimination in the society.

We are our brother’s keeper and as such would look out for him and only wish and desire things for the good of all in the society.

 

Cultural, social and racial discrimination should be the thing of the past because if we truly understand the law of karma and reincarnation and how it applies to the physical universe and all the universes then we would realize that we come from the great one source of all life and existence.

 

We are not different!

We are one and the same!

 

We Are All One And The Same!

When we begin to understand this great principle and philosophy of life we begin to see others and all creatures of the great source of all life differently and not as separate from us.

 

We begin to understand empathy and develop empathy for all creatures and creations of the great source of all life because we understand that we are beings of light and love and exist because of this great love.

 

We need to empathize with the people whose beliefs or religious belief system and faith practices we don’t share, are different from ours or who may be the perceived “enemies” in some way – one way or another.

I would love to hear from you or your thoughts on this post, please drop us a line.

In closing, i believe the wisdom below will serve you in life:

“Thank you God, for this beautiful day today. Help me to always see your love reflected in each and every moment, no matter how challenging life may be. Remind me to always look to my heart for the LESSONS and BLESSINGS in life”.

Jean Voice Dart!

 

These words of Inspirations from the enlightened ones will serve you even more:

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being”.

Hafiz

“Within you is the light of a thousand suns, within you is unimaginable beauty”.

Robert Adam

“Don’t you know it yet, it is your light that illuminates the worlds”.

Rumi

“I am the light of the world. You are the light of the world”.

Jesus

“Your heart is the light of the world, don’t cover it with your mind”.

Mooji

 

Taking responsibility and recognizing that we cause all of our core issues is not a reality for most people.

Taking responsibility to see life differently without justification, judgement and blame, rejection or anxiety, fear or anger would really help you in the long run.

Every condition, disease or disorder is a spiritual condition that has come up for review and to be dealt with and taken care of. Once the lesson is truly learnt and absorbed, the conditions or situation reverses itself and clears out and that’s when we say a healing has occurred and a miracle has happened.

Every problem preludes a negative thought and mindset so watch your thoughts and emotions carefully and guard them jealously.

Nothing can stop you if you have the courage, commitment and the discipline to move through your limitations.

‘Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love’

The purpose of life is to discover who you really are, know and create yourself and experience yourself as who you really are (not the body that houses you) as a part of the divine source to give and receive love and serve all creatures of the divine.

As long as you don’t or you refuse to see yourself as a victim then life becomes a challenge that you can overcome with commitment and consistent work and it will pay you back handsomely.

A lesson you avoided in a past life will be forwarded to the current life until you get the lesson right or understood the reason for it. Each time the lesson is more intense, than the last experience until you recognize it.

This is an interactive universe where we all work together in each other’s lessons and life whether we want it or not or whether we are aware of it or not.

Our fears always surface when we least expect it and when it does, its better to face the lesson and conquer it.

You can take back control of your life and drive it the way you would rather want it to be and have things and have things the way you want it to be.

It takes taking responsibility for all the wrongs that have happened in your life because whether you agree or not, you are held responsible for all your:

1. THOUGHTS

2. WORDS

3. ACTION

Nobody wants to listen to your cry of wolf or denial or victim mentality and it won’t take you far except you sit still, take stock of your life and determine and desire to turn it around and that’s where and when the answers or solutions come in.

If and when you are now truly ready to take back control and look out for the patterns and lessons in your life to understand the mind aberrations that are causing your problems and have taken control of your life.

That’s when the creative centers open within and you can finally have the tools to help you change the course of your life and manifest your destiny.

To succeed in life, you must refuse to see yourself as a loser no matter what the prevailing situation or condition might be and you evaluate what you can do to succeed.

The most important qualities are self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence and that you understand that you are entitled to abundance in your life.

You can do anything you want to and be anything you want to, provided you believe that it is possible.

Victims do not hold that belief!

So ask yourself – are you a victim?

Sometimes a little help from a Therapist or Mental Health Consultant like myself and a host of others can help guide you on this journey into an amazing life that is yours and yours only.

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