People talk all the time about their emotions, their feelings and beliefs, and think what they feel is THEM, defines them, and constitutes what and who they are, completely. So, if anyone questions or criticizes their feelings or beliefs, it is interpreted as questioning their value and importance as a person, as a being, as a soul. Can Creator comment on this widespread perspective, how much truth is in it, and how much is confusion or illusion?

The immediate reaction to people’s emotions and beliefs is part of a dual problem because the eye of the beholder is equally suspect. In other words, an emotional display on the part of one person will likely have an emotional reaction on the part of the observer. One needs to examine the strength and quality of the response as well as the source of stimulus. Is the observer in divine alignment or are they overemotional and prone to quick judgments of others, a hypercritical evaluation, and a negative emotional display based on misguided thinking and a loveless nature within themselves? So this represents the basic human quandary—who is who and who is to judge the relative merits of another? This again speaks to the need to be in alignment with divine truth because there is no higher way to be, and this provides not only the state of being in the right, but the safest and strongest platform for supporting one’s life. It is the basic infrastructure that confers safety and protection and an endless source of love to work with. In addition to the higher awareness that is represented by wisdom in thinking, when one is not in divine alignment and truly on their own, it is much harder to be a full person as well as to maintain a full measure of integrity and loving devotion to high principles, as well as serving the self and others in equal measure. Those are divine attributes and goals which are harder to achieve through one’s own thinking and awareness. It calls on the ability to love, to be charitable, to be kind, to be self-sacrificing, and to share with another less fortunate. Love comes from the divine, so the risk to the disconnected individual is a diminishment in their ability to feel love and have love to share with others. This eventually reaches a point where not only is one an unsatisfactory or even an unsuitable companion for living with another, but begins having a life not worth living at all if love is absent, because nothing good can come of it and many things done will be a detriment karmically to the person’s future. So, much is at stake in where one is with respect to being in divine alignment. When one is in alignment it is easier to assess the nature of others and what they represent with their thoughts and feelings. It is extremely difficult to evaluate oneself objectively, because everything is filtered through one’s own beliefs and one’s own emotional experiences and the trauma they have lived through that will determine many ongoing sensitivities. Because life is first and foremost about survival, given you are in a fragile existence in a harsh environment in many ways, given the presence of evil, preserving one’s integrity is paramount and any threat to personal integrity is seen as a threat to survival whether this is literally true, or simply an immediate and habitual stress response to being challenged because one is on high alert much of the time to cope with life. This is why people take their own beliefs seriously, it is all they have to guide their way and whatever challenges the beliefs must be rejected, because to not do so puts the self at risk and that will rarely be considered due to the imperative to survive that is a basic drive the mind has as an operating requirement, and the foundation of many related beliefs supporting the possibility of existence and the continued survival of the individual, and everything they rely on, such as their own physical being, their possessions, their friends and loved ones, and so on. So any interchange between persons will be viewed on multiple levels with multiple perspectives because this has survival value, but it does mean there is more at stake and there will be for some, a highly emotional reaction as they become triggered by what they perceive as a threat even if that is not at all intended. So for these reasons, there are ample opportunities for misunderstandings and points of friction to develop with the interplay among humans interacting with one another. This is why the personality has an important role in governing how smoothly things go when people meet and greet one another. Those who are disarming because they are feeling good and radiate that sense of well-being and come across as a person of good cheer will automatically be seen as less threatening and will put people at ease and it will be much easier for them to be at their best and will rise to that other person’s level much more so than if they feel challenged or threatened in some way, even indirectly. So this is the art of conversation as an aspect of the art of living, that will have much to do with human interactions, how successful they are, and whether they are perhaps quite temporary and ineffectual, or lead to useful interchanges and even the formation of close ties and deep bonds of love in some cases when there is a meeting of minds, not necessarily always with identical values and perspectives, but a critical mutual level of loving respect for one another.