Life isn’t black and white. Your thinking shouldn’t be either. In his essay, Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson advised, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” You don’t have to fit every part of your thinking into a prepackaged box or ism. It’s okay to open your mind and blend philosophies. Adhering to all tenets of any one group would necessitate sometimes ignoring your own internal compass. Don’t get stuck taking rigid ‘us and them’ stances. After all, everyone is part of the same energetic force that makes the world rich with diversity…
One tribe.
Steve and Jarl
So true! And the “one tribe” is really beginning to manifest as a conscious “us”; in the very nick of time! I have repeatedly thought my mind was open, only to discover another gremlin hiding behind a rationalization. I think we search and search within ourselves for what is quite obvious to other people . . . not responsible for our papier maché beliefs.