If you think about it, at some level of understanding, call it God or universal intelligence, there is only one reality. 

If there is only one reality, what then is the source of people’s differences? What is the source of conflicts, for example, about environmental issues? 

The answer is our individual views of the one reality are shaped and altered by our human emotions. So, human emotions are the source of all human conflict. 

If you can simply begin to distinguish the difference between your emotions and your opinions, that is the foundation for reaching agreement with another human being.

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