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Steve, you always have the perfect post whenever I need it. I think this is so incredibly brilliant --- I've been acquiring so many new and out of the box ideas of reality and life in general, some that would even seem blasphemous to some people, and I love what you said about franklin, how he never took ownership of his ideas, the idea of bringing a "third party" in so that you don't get fixated on protecting the ideas as a part of yourself and so that you bring the other party to a more middle ground, that's wonderful.
And just the realization that from their point of view, they ARE right, because that is what is "RIGHT" in their reality, in the world that they perceive - it just goes back to the whole law of attraction thing in a way, in that whatever we believe, it becomes, so in a way, anything could be right on some level, it just depends on who's doing the looking.
I've felt such rigid resistance to people in my life, afraid that they're going to attack my beliefs and attack myself, but the separation of beliefs and self really makes a lot of sense to me - I've been defending myself so much, and I didn't know how to hold a belief without making it part of my position - I've been so inundated in the idea that in order to live, you need to have a position and be firm in it, believe that it is right and everything else is wrong. While I still have my beliefs, realizing the reality and truth that lies in other beliefs, even if they're completely contradictory to my own, is really eye-opening and I feel so much more relaxed now that my defenses are loosening up a little...
Once again, thank you for another awesome post.  |