"If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle.  Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful."  *-- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude."  *-- Katherine Mansfield 

"Your vision and faith will set the creative force in motion to bring it towards you, and your action will cause the forces in your own environment to move you towards the place you want."  *-- Wallace D. Wattles

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Those of us who have been on a path of healing the wounded aspects of ourselves know that one of the characteristics we often suffer from when we are in a wounded, fearful ego state is that we feel either superior or inferior to others. Because the wounded part of us is based on the core shame beliefs that we are inadequate, flawed, defective, unimportant, and so on, we may feel deeply one-down to others. In order to compensate for these difficult feelings and protect against feeling them, we may deny their existence and move into the opposite position: I am better than others.

This position can take many forms:

• I am better than others because I have more money.
• I am better than others because I am thinner, sexier, prettier or more handsome.
• I am better than others because I have a better car.
• I am better than women because I am a man, or I am better than men because I am a woman.
• I am better than homosexuals because I am heterosexual.

• I am better than Blacks, Asians and Latinos because I am White, or, as is rapidly becoming the case, I am better than Whites because I am Black, Asian, or Latino.
• I am better than Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims because I am Christian, or I am better than Christians because I am a Jew, Buddhist, and so on.

The way I see it, racists are waving a large flag that says: "I feel deeply inadequate, insecure, fearful, flawed. I am terrified of anyone knowing about these feelings, so I will hide them by pretending to be better than others. This will protect me from ever having to feel how defective I really feel." Hitler, with his highly abusive background and his deep self-hatred for the small part of himself that was Jewish, illustrates the extreme of what I am talking about.

The problems of racism and violence will not be resolved until:

• Our child-rearing practices change to produce people with high self-esteem instead of deep core shame.
• Adults commit to their inner healing work which involves healing the wounded aspects of themselves that resort to hate and violence when threatened.

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