by Merci Gracia | Aug 11, 2020 | Tolerance
We each have our strengths and weaknesses. We’re naturally good at some things, while other skills and talents are born out of hard work and persistence. There are also aspects of living our lives and relating to others in which we are unskilled. Even though our...
by Merci Gracia | Jul 18, 2020 | Tolerance
We aren’t just a collection of beliefs. We see that when we imagine how we’d feel about someone if we had no idea what their political or religious opinions were. We’d be responding to their vibration, which is much more fundamental. Opinions and...
by Merci Gracia | Jun 29, 2020 | Acceptance, Tolerance
We may not be aware of how entrenched our beliefs are until we are challenged by others who disagree. We can gauge the degree of our rigidity by how threatened we feel. But, there’s no reason to feel hostile toward others with differing viewpoints. When we...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 21, 2020 | Tolerance
Part of what makes the world so fascinating and rich is the limitless variety. Colors, shapes, sizes, people, personalities and interests intrigue, delight and confuse us. Few of us would want to live in a place in which everyone was predictably similar, but we get...
by Merci Gracia | Jan 14, 2020 | Tolerance
We’ve all had experiences in which our rush to judgment has later proven to have been based on faulty information or unconscious personal bias. This happens because we naturally see the world through our highly subjective experience, specific conditioning and...
by Merci Gracia | Oct 4, 2019 | Tolerance
When we’re tired our tolerance is reduced and it’s easy to be short with others and say things we might later regret. We might even say something in a very terse way to get it out quickly and, because we’re stretched thin, it comes out wrong and...