Change the focus. Instead of arguing over who is right and who is wrong, try listening, caring, supporting - the fragile child within by acknowledging we are not in control.
There is nothing that will switch from this to an ideal world. The need now is to care, to listen and connect.
How can you connect with a voice printed in a newspaper or magazine, an ego that has a large vocabulary, a politician that is afraid of losing her seat?
We could begin with the wisdom of my yoga teacher "everyone suffers" and we cannot see what problems our adversaries are dealing with. They are gripping the bar to stay on it.
As Gabor Mate has pointed out in his books, the trauma that has caused our fragile state is beyond our recall and we are just reacting to the way it hurt us. We feel the pain but not always the source.
The everlasting problem of our lives is - how can we humanize our world? How can we welcome the future, nurture and care for it? What can we win if everyone is anxious, afraid and opinionated.
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