Accept what does not Fit

We are shaped by our experiences. Invariably we can’t go through all kinds of experiences. Hence are senses are developed in a particular way to perceive and act. This gives us fewer strengths and more weaknesses. 
The way to work around this is to harness the experiences of other people (via human interaction or reading their books or books about them). That is only possible if we respect other people’s experiences (perceptions and actions) at least as much as our own instead of ridiculing them just because they don’t fit with our own.
The more varied a person’s experience pool (own and others’), the more balanced his worldview is likely to be. 
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‘You Are a Herd of Donkeys because…’

Immediately after Fajr (morning prayers) the Imam (one who leads the Muslim congregational prayers in a mosque) stood up to address the restless souls heading back to cover their sleep before starting of the long day while fasting. Getting up to rush back myself I was forced to sit tight by the gravity of what the imam started of with (and the fact that I had had a couple hours of extra sleep last night didn’t hurt).

He said the people going away, not listening to him, not offering extra prayers last night, etc. were not doing themselves any good. In fact by some miraculous stretch of (mis)interpretation of Quran (74:50-51) he likened them to a herd of donkeys running away from the predatory lion. Surely the looks on the running faces didn’t look amused.