How important is it for you to be right? Is it worth ending a friendship over it? Is it worth cutting yourself off from others and everything that does not agree with you?
There was a time when debates were useful. Now, they are means of slinging mud at each other. Their purpose was to expand one's understanding of another's point of view. It was about getting along despite our differences
"I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right."
~ Billy Joel
"Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way......
Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right?
Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are?
It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space."
~ Pema Chodron
"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."
~ Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~ Rumi
Happy Monday, Wishing Everyone a Wonderful Week!
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