Can a narrow minded person see their own narrow mind? I just don't think you can see that which your mind has been trained not to see. The beliefs of the mind are stronger than reality.
We often think we have to change reality; when in fact, we need to open and broaden the mind.
I am not so sure an outside force can alter the inner beliefs and thoughts of a person.
I know, that a person is 100% caught up in what their mind believes, and in some cases will kill you for that thought.
As I watch the exchanges from both sides of an issue, it is to see a closed mind doing battle with an open one.
There, is very little common ground, for the closed mind is rarely standing on reality.
How can you fight illusion?
I come from narrow mindedness. I used to believe that which I was taught to believe, not what I was taught to experience. My center of the universe was in my mind; not on the ground.
I had irrational thoughts about rational things.
I would get nervous, anxious and afraid when the facade was rattled by common sense. I could feel, even if I didn't know it, that my center piece was in danger of falling.
What I am always surprised is how often we try and justify realty and rarely challenge the beliefs of a narrow mind.
Trying to prove the innocent, more innocent.
Rarely going after the beliefs of the narrow road.
We look deeply and long at the immigrants; not the ones who are building the walls.
What are their beliefs about humanity at large?
Can a person have open boundaries with a narrow mind?
I don't believe so.
My narrow mindedness could only see so far and made up stories about the rest.
Fear of my beliefs falling, kept me from exploring beyond where my mind feared to go.
To even look at my own narrow mind, was an impossibility.
I was the narrow mind.
I had no other self beyond that.
We are challenging the small self that lives in non-reality.
Reality will destroy it.
It needs enemies and wrong folk to thrive.
I don't know how we can undo the mental narrow mind. All I know, is that one day, I found myself outside of it. All the false centers of mine crashed.
I was left at ground zero.
No me.
But, no narrow mind to block reality for me either.
A huge open space of awareness, consciousness and the brilliantly tragic reality.
The flow of the universe was open at last to me.
Nature at its best and I then could see where I had been.
Although I saw myself more clearly as I continued to dialogue with those still under the rule of that narrow mind.
So, as we discuss and toss around what is good for America, remember you are most likely dancing with a mind who has very little touch with reality. They live, as my brother use to say, "In the smallest darkest parts of their mind."
Can you see what you believe?
