It’s a dog-eat-world out there my friends. You need to look out for number one: that would be you. Darwin has instructed us that only the strong survive: the survival of the fittest. We live in a very competitive win-lose society, so where do you want to land on the food chain of life? Surely you have heard these and many more expressions, all of which are NOT the way life is to be lived.
So what are you hearing and thus what are you SEEING?
At the heart of that question though is a deeper one that needs to be examined. WHO taught you to see life that way? The obvious answers are: my parents, formal school teachers, religion, and the environment(s) or fields from which you sojourn. Living life in such a paradigm and fish bowl was difficult when the world was not so easily connected, nor with a population headed to seven billion.
The younger crowd doesn’t have the perspective that the grey-heads do.
Not too many decades ago, one could pretty much live in isolation (can you say naivete) and not have to deal with anyone of a different color, religion, or ethnicity. Once upon a time a white, protestant, Christian individual need only argue about the nuances of the collective community, which were few.
Not so today!
Today we must come face to face, sometimes hourly, with the distinctiveness of a world growing ever so large and diverse with fewer and fewer resources with which to share. Otto Rank SAW a piece of the puzzle when he wrote, “When religion lost the cosmos in the West, society became neurotic and we had to invent psychology to deal with the ensuing neurosis.” The picture is much larger and complicated today.
When is the last time that you had your glasses checked?
We must lay down the exclusivity of our religious belief and join a more spiritual community which is the ONENESS that so many religions taught (especially Jesus), but NOW must be practically and pragmatically lived out unlike anything that’s gone before. So, who is TEACHING you to SEE this road?
The teacher always arrives when the student is ready! 
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