Awakening to a New Consciousness

Can you think of any thing that you personally can do to help promote understanding ?

All of us can probably think of ways to be more tolerant of those who have different beliefs than ourselves !

Permalink Reply by diogenes66 on November 12, 2008 at 9:04am: Absolutely right! I don't believe in taking the Bible literally; it is just a bunch of parables. However, from some of them do have good insight. I am reminded of the story of Adam and Eve which is usually misquoted. What it actually says is that they ate the fruit "from the tree of knowledge of good and evil". The moral being that when we start judging things as "good" or "evil", we are cast out of heaven [which is actually a mental state of peace and serenity]. When we are in "Hell" we are in a mental state of anxiety or discomfort.
Heaven and Hell are not after we die but inside of ourselves where we experience the consequences of our own actions and our thoughts.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alexander on November 13, 2008 at 5:21am: Thank You; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alexander on September 17, 2008 at 2:51am: A great book can have a dull plane old cover so we tend not to judge a book by it's cover. People are not books, and when others judge you by your cover 9 times out of ten they are right.

There is an old saying "always dress to impress"

I suspect things shouldn't always be this way, but the reality is people will be people, some narrow minded some not.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Daniel on September 17, 2008 at 6:54pm: Yeah, narrow minded, a reflection of the smallness in their thinking....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RainDrops on November 11, 2008 at 7:48pm: Lead by example, showing that there are other ways of thinking...
What works for some one might not work for some one else...; ▶ Reply to This