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Individual Choice
Don’t empathy and compassion often lead you to do things for others that hurt yourself? True compassion will allow for forbearance. True compassion will lead to the realization that the worlds burdens are not your personal burdens, and your values are not the world’s solution. The idea that the world needs saving, and the individual…
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Tolerate Your Failings
Can you tolerate your own weaknesses, friends? Your own failings? If not, why not? That can be the biggest trial, but it leads to tolerance of others. It goes back to tending to the moat in your eye, not the splinter in your neighbours. Indeed, it does. If attending to yourself, you will have little…
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Embrace Tolerance
Friends, what is tolerance? Polite respect for someone else, even if you don’t understand them. Excellent, and the odds are there will be plenty of people in life you don’t understand, because they come from a different culture than you, speak a different language, or just have to deal with a noticeably different living situation…
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Wiser Choice
I used to work with a woman. She talked about going to discos and not wanting to get too close to anyone, just have fun. I dismissed her as a party girl and didn’t have much to do with her, and then one day she told me that she had been engaged and her fiancé…
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God's Grace
We are all equally present in this reality. Accepting this is tolerance. The opposite of tolerance is delusion. The idea that you can exclude something because you don’t like it, or the idea that you can ridicule someone because they seem to have a deficit you do not. All of us are to some degree…
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Recognition Of Common Ground
Tolerance is a hot button topic, and my track record with those is touch and go, so I apologize in advance if I offend. Tolerance to my view is not some touchy, feely, love everybody practice. I think that’s why, despite all the popular rhetoric about tolerance, we actually have very little of it. Of…
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Enjoy Your Beliefs
Do you think religion is in our DNA? The God gene? I think sensitivity is in our DNA, and more sensitive people are attracted to religion much the same as sensitive people are attracted to art. Like attracts like. Yes. The law of sympathy. It could be argued it’s necessary for our very survival. I…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…