All disagreements, all arguments, all wars start with self-centered fear (for what other kind is there?). And I believe that that fear births disrespect, the driver of all disagreements. One person, one side, one party, one country disrespects the other simply by not listening.
The disrespect is in the first one's belief that she is right and he is wrong, and the other's belief that she is wrong, that he is right...so why listen?
And neither one will sit down, get quiet within and without, and ask for the grace of guidance. Not for how to win him over, not to get her to see the right way...according to her, she is already seeing the right way, and it is her way. Nor will either ponder ways to see the problematic issue from the other's viewpoint.
That is at the core of disrespect. Which is also the core of fear. The fear being I may be wrong...and will look like a fool, be laughed at, humiliated.
So, humanity itself rests on the minute feeling of self-centered fear from which disrespect blooms and nuclear bombs are born which prove too annihilating to use so heads are chopped off which make nuclear bombs seem like the only answer.
I'm guessing the whole world knows the right answer...and we wait for the other side to do it first lest we look like the loser.
Please. Thank you. Amen.
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