People

People: A lot depends on how a person is brought up, and what values they have been given, if any.

In some cases their culture has taught them beliefs and ways that no one else follows, and that makes it hard for other people to understand them. We may wonder, “How can they think like that?” The reasons is centuries of tradition being passed down from one family to another.

We are born with an empty soul, we fill it with life and experiences, and we can refer back to those experiences for guidance.

Your experiences and teachers in life were different from the experiences and teachers of many of the people who you come into contact with you had, and that is why many think differently to you.

The best that we can do for ourself and for them is to try to let personal feelings go over our head, not be prideful when dealing with people, not be overly sensitive and then take a personal interest in our enemies and those who frustrate us.

When we do this we gain wisdom, we gain an understanding of their lives, and we can have true empathy for them.

If we look at their “people’s past history“, their parents, and cultural influences, we can get a better idea of how a person mind was formed over the years. We can then sympathize with their people. We can see how their peoples past was very much like our own people’s pasts.

Looking at what makes others tick, and their lives has us looking less at our own selves and more at being a blessing to others. Your compassion and love plants a seed in that persons heart, and a positive experience in that persons soul, something that they can refer back to.

We can forgive people who are not nice to us when we understand what made them what they are today. We may not like being mistreated, but at least if we can see where our enemies are coming from we have a chance of helping them in the future (if they ever humble themselves enough to be our friends), and/or helping others like them.

Many people react to life without thinking. We must not be people who do this, we need to calmly think before we react to anything as best as we can.

Following the crowd is not thinking for ourselves.

Wisdom comes from understanding our own personal path, understanding how people and events affected us, and understanding other people and how they came to have the desires, opinions, values, feelings and life that they have.

We can only bring people to peaceful lives by understanding one another, being charitable, compassion, empathy and love.

Love will always win if we use it.

All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
20th of May 2015.