Blinding flash of the obvious: "Thank you for softening my mind, my thoughts...that they are receiving not resisting...soft not hard; grant that I may seek to understand rather than seek to be understood."
I have often thought that that is the one line from the Prayer of Saint Francis that is the entire How-To Manual for ego reduction in depth: Grant that I may seek to understand rather than seek to be understood.
I'm also convinced that all debates, arguments, skirmishes, battles, wars would stop if each individual in the debate, etc., would sincerely seek to understand the other rather seek to be understood by the other.
Which does not mean we give over a sincerely held belief, become a doormat, cease to have an opinion...no. It only means we each let the other keep his or her beliefs and accept that we do not have to be a doormat to be nonresistant. It's called "live and let live."
We can start by deciding not to be as nasty as we want to be which opens the door for the grace of God to flow...without which, there's gonna be war.
Thank you.
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