Two friendly young women with two cute little kids knocked on my front door a few days ago.

One of the women handed me a Jehovah’s Witnesses brochure. From past experience, I figured I was in for a long lecture right there at my front door. I knew Jehovah’s Witnesses were strong evangelists for their religious beliefs and values.

But instead, this young woman just briefly summarized what was in the brochure, and said if I had any questions to go to their website.

That was it. No preaching. Just a few friendly words. Then, with a wave and a smile, all of them were gone.

I thought to myself “What a great role model for us all!”

How many of us (I include myself here) can simply and truthfully state our beliefs and values without “preaching?” Why do we need to convert everyone to our way of thinking and living?

Religious folks aren’t the only ones who preach. I’ve met people on non-religious spiritual paths who could also be pretty obnoxious about saying their way was the way. I’ve done it myself.

Isn’t that kind of narrow, opinionated approach and intolerance toward others a big part of our world’s problems today?

P.S. If you go to Jehovah’s Witnesses website, you’ll see they’re pretty direct in their conviction that not all religions or spiritual paths are good. But there was none of that from those two young women.

This video features the Indian novelist and poet, Vikram Seth. He offers several wise insights, one of which is “intolerance is violence.”

In the early 1980s John took a spiritual development course, and was introduced to his first spirit guide, Lydia. After Lydia arrived, three other guides also came to him: Archangel Michael, Tamarra, and Chief Joseph. Today these are John’s four main guides.

Besides his four main ones, John has various other guides. The entire group is really a multidimensional collective consciousness. John refers to the entire group simply as “Spirit.”

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