You Can Only Open Your Mind

The minds of others are outside your power.

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I don’t know about you, but one thing that drives me batty is closed-mindedness. It’s especially frustrating and infuriating when you see someone holding onto something illogical, unreasonable, hurtful, and harmful out of fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or some combination therein.

Then, to add insult to injury, it doesn’t help that political parties, business leaders, religious leaders, would-be demagogues, and others weaponize that fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or combination therein. The divide and conquer approach is too pervasive, and it’s creating wider and wider, unnecessary gaps in society and how we interact with one another.

I would love to do something, anything, to change this narrative. What can I do to wake people up, show them that kindness/compassion/empathy aren’t weaknesses? How can I help people open their hearts, souls, and minds to abundance?

I can’t. Plain and simple, I cannot open anyone else’s mind.

What can I do? Keep my mind open and share what I get from working with that.

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