“Nothing real can be threatened.”
~~from the song All Night by Beyoncé
Our beliefs in life set the foundation for everything we do and experience. Our beliefs are the seeds for our ideas, our words, our actions, and our reactions.
And the closer to our centre a belief is, the closer to our core, the wider the web it throws out, and the more areas and topics it touches. If a person ever finds themselves acting counter to what they say their values and beliefs are then they can bet that there is a deeper, underlying belief overriding their surface one.
And when I look at it this way, it makes sense why some people are so intolerant of any beliefs that are different to theirs. It’s because deep down they know that “other” belief will lead to “other” words and “other” actions that are not in step with what they want.
But that intolerance of different beliefs needs another component. It needs a belief that other people’s words, actions, lifestyles can harm you, pose a danger to you and yours in some way.
But if someone had a core belief that all is, fundamentally, well? That belief would lay a foundation of boundless ease and tolerance, and flow out words and actions that reflect that.