I had this extraordinary thought come to me yesterday: “If you had all the beliefs I have about you, you wouldn’t be you; you’d be me.”

It got me to thinking how personal and powerful beliefs are.

No one has the same collection of beliefs that you do. That makes them personal. Their power comes from their ability to direct our thinking into specific channels. This power itself is neutral. It will flow into any belief we own without prejudice.

What you believe about another is, for the most part, not evidence based, but belief based. You see them and their actions through a filtering system that is unique to you and your conditioning.

This is more than saying that everyone believes differently. This is gaining a perspective that people will not behave exactly like you unless they are you, and judging them for not doing so is missing the point that our beliefs are unique to us. We’re the only one to have this particular collection. Others have a different set causing them to behave differently.

Sidebar: It is prudent to note that reality will not always act in accordance with our beliefs. That alone should demonstrate how unreliable many of our beliefs are.

The reality is this: Human beings are “Human Believers.” We too often believe that others should act the way we believe they should. That’s impossible for them because they are not us.

When you attempt to make another into your image and likeness, you are pretending to be God. That belief will shatter when you discover that you can’t clone you.

It makes for a more peaceful existence when we have a functioning level of tolerance for another’s beliefs. That’s because attempting to make theirs just like ours is an impossible task no matter how much you believe it.

All the best,

John

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