I was involved in a highly charged organizational conflict. It seemed so obvious to me that I was seeing the situation clearly. Of course, those with opposing views thought the same thing. Communications were getting very heated, with feelings of anger and defensiveness running high. At a certain point, feeling my own suffering and that of others, I stepped back and asked myself a question that proved very freeing: Why do others feel the way they do? How are they perceiving the situation? As soon as I was no longer caught in attachment to my own perception of things, I became less caught in
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