thought for the day...

[evile]

spurred by an entry by kulilinei

"Oh, I can't talk to _____, they're not ______[christian, pagan, sharing my belief system.]"

change to

I CAN talk to them. I CAN work with them. I CAN achieve understanding and rapport. Because I AM [christian, pagan, living my life according to my belief system.]

My interactions aren't about controlling the other person, or making them think and believe as I do.

If I am working to be in alignment with my best thoughts, my most open heart, my best 'me'...I can talk with or work with ANYONE.

Just by giving up judgement and giving up needing or expecting them to behave a certain way.


Is this naive or foolish?

or is this me thinking & acting from LOVE rather than FEAR, as I've wanted to do & been trying to do for a long time now?

hm.

Comments

[terriblelynne.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. Thanks for sharing. :-)

[red-tanya.livejournal.com]

it's not naive or foolish. (*HUG*) yay for you!

Belief systems can come between good people...

[arthurthedented.livejournal.com]

the NATURE of the person is generally more important than thier supposed belief system. those systems can (unfortunately) make good people reluctantly and sheepishly go along with bad things and perhaps in thier GOOD ways they mildly restrain bad people from doing thier worst in public... but in personal dealing I suspect the PERSON counts a whole lot more than which "holy book"/Mythology they subscribe to.

Some folk are mad, bad , dangerous and not to be dealt with regardless of what color sheepskin they wear... on the other end of the spectrum , I once upon a time was friends with a kind considerate , funny guy who thought he was a Neo Nazi (we were both highschool age and he pretty quickly grew out of it)

the only exception I personally know is satanists... when someone voluntarily chooses that label for themselve, run, dont walk away. oh and a couple of folks calling themselves Discordian's have been particularly sharp knives in my spine over the years too.

[lynnivere.livejournal.com]

I love that! Moving forward on a positive instead of a negative is always productive. Heck.. Moving forward on neutral is still better than starting in the deficit of negativity.

Thanks for posting this!

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

&, just by way of letting me know that I'm maybe on the right track, this week's Kabbalah Tune UP is:

http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe54157675610d787d1d&m=fef015747c6d0c&ls=fdfa10777364067c77177871&l=fec212727d6d077c&s=fdf915717462027a70177875&ju=fe2f157977600479761273

followed by my daily Hazelden email:

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
--Archibald. MacLeish

Many of us have lived double lives. There were public selves whom others knew, and private selves whom no one met. It was a compulsive world, and both sides were false. Many of us grew up in addicted families and learned this double life early by hiding from outsiders what life was really like at home.

In this program we learn to live our truth before we can speak it. It is more in our actions than in what we say. We may never know the words for this truth because we do not consciously invent it. It comes to us quietly over time and slowly merges all our parts. Gradually we begin to feel whole again as we surrender our double lives for single, truthful ones.

Let me have the trust to give myself to the work of recovery and follow it where it takes me.

You are reading from the book:

Touchstones by Anonymous

Touchstones. Copyright 1986, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of Hazelden.

So, yeah. I think I've hit on something here.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

So, "I can talk to this person, regardless of belief, and still maintain my integrity"?