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Today's
Meditation:
It's
important to keep things like this in mind when we try to
make others "see things our way." Whenever
we try to convince someone else that we see things in the
only truly "right" way, we reduce the world to a
very limited, very narrow place indeed.
The
way I see the world is unique to me, and I value my
perspective for exactly what it is: a limited
perspective on an unlimited world. But if I'm to be
fair in life, then I must value the perspectives of
others, too, as being just as valid as my own. Other
people have grown with different experiences and different
input into their lives, and it's not up to me to impose my
way of seeing things upon others. Once I do so, I'm
showing a lack of respect for another person's uniqueness
and individuality.
I
am who I am, and if I respect that fully then it's easier
for me to respect the fact that other people are who they
are, and that it's not important for me to try to get them
to see the world through my eyes, to understand things the
way I understand them. Rather, if I can try to
understand the way they see things, I can learn much more
about life, living, and this wonderful world of ours by
seeing everything in a new light, from a new perspective.
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