Email: How do you deal with different perspectives? (US)
Need to explore the unfamiliar challenges and excites me, the intensity of curiosity is inspiring. When we discover alternative view-points, structures or ideologies we’ve never encountered before, our natural response is defensiveness.
However, when we potentially experiment with new horizons, spheres or domains it’s refreshing and motivating. Eager to experience what lies beyond comfort zone. It doesn’t mean we’re rebellious or lost touch with our original thought processes. It’s openness, receptiveness and expansiveness of the mind, heart.
Like a frog jumping out of the well into a stream, from a stream into a river, river to the seas and finally, it’s ultimate destination of fulfilment – vastness and depth of the ocean.
Desire to explore full expanse of the universe is neither weird nor radical. How we respond will naturally determine what we receive for our efforts. If we feel repelled by new concepts, we learn little about how others think, feel and behave.
To understand how people with different philosophies perceive the world, we must be willing to internalise their ideologies for a short time, without prejudice or judgement. Inevitably, we grow and learn immeasurably, discover tenets of alternative beliefs, traditions, structures or systems that we can integrate effectively into our own lives.
Lived half of my life in India, other half in the UK. Open-heartedly, perceptively adopt and blend the best of both eastern and western cultures. Great knowledge, insights and wisdom gained through a world-wide perspective on humanity.