The ego tempts all human beings to focus the vast majority of our energies on ourselves.  As a consequence, our sense of compassion tends to fades, our feelings of fear tend to escalate, crime tends to ensue, & war ultimately erupts … If we each were, on the other hand, to regularly remember that all our personal, national, and cultural boundaries are purely imaginary, nothing more than man-made lines; if we were to each remember that we are all truly part of one large, perfectly interconnected Family, then our conflicts would not be so easily able to take such extreme forms … With these thoughts in mind, go the entire day today without using the words “my” or “I”.  Focus instead on re-Awakening an “us/we mentality” — instead of arguing or engaging in “win or lose” interactions, choose to somehow make every encounter a “Win/Win” engagement.   If you slip up and re-focus on yourself every now & then, no problem.  Simply repeat your self-centered sentence — after turning it into a selflessly Caring one.

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