There’s far more that brings us together than there is that separates us.
When we constrain ourselves to the same physical location, the same people we spend time with, and the same sources of information, we subconsciously adopt a frame of mind that can create limitations in our perceptions of externalities, which ultimately influences our day-to-day actions.
With such an overload of connectedness and communication from the media we interact with dozens of times every day, messages of judgement and intolerance are continually projected at us, and distance can be created between people and between cultures.
In recent years we have clearly seen this division between the Western World and the Eastern World, and most recently, we have even seen the lines drawn between people of the same culture in the USA.
While a cautious, conservative approach to exploring new territory has its place, it isn’t a strategy that allows for a full life of freedom and liberty.
Relinquishing control of our obsessive desire for complete risk management provides us with a new capacity for openness to experience. By letting go of preconceived notions and putting trust out into the world, we have the ability to see the world through a new lens: a lens of peace and hope.
Give it away, and it will come back.
