Many ideas.. and then more ideas sprouting from those.. such a network of beliefs:
- Hierarchies of foreignness. Based on resemblance to self and ability to communicate and understand. A way to classify his/her 'threat level' proportional to how different he/she is perceived against self.
- An acceptance that true understanding of others, their purpose/desires/dreams which drive their actions, ultimately always leads to love. Maybe better summarised as Namaste.
- Secrets and deceits stretch tendrils into your being if they are present. Without always realising they shape and trim thoughts and actions, filters of how you perceive inwards an outwards. And in the end the relief of freeing yourself from these outweighs their damage at expulsion.
- How do you settle the argument of good intentions paving the road you dot wish to travel along. Getting ever more involved to drive something you place a reliance for it on yourself. Classic tale - the hero becomes the villain [Sweet Batman movie].
- Being reflective, ever more self aware, allows for a fair bit of self knowledge. And as with all things it has its own traps - arrogance, self doubt, the inability to act in any direction.
- We all do little injustices as we brush shoulders with each other. Small acts of disrespect that there is a 'tolerance' for, as long as they are never directly interrogated or laid bare before our peers, or even ourselves.
- Staying aware of the perspective from which we judge, as we do. Trying to stay fluid, open to not only the views of others but the true source of our own approaches to matters. You can find yourself lying to yourself daily, if you really want to take a look.
How lucky we are to be able to read into the minds of others (:
