When I suggest that you have confidence in yourself, it is not My intention that you think you are always right. There is still a difference between opinion and fact. An opinion, no matter how strong, is still an opinion. Even when many agree with you, that means only that there are many who feel the same. Corroboration is only corroboration. It is not fact. Opinion multiplied is nonetheless opinion. Opinion is not certainty.

When you state your opinion as fact, you cut off communication. The communication is ended because you have cut it off with your emphasis. You close the door shut. Your making absolute statements leaves no room for discussion, only argument, and who wants to argue with you? The other most likely prefers to withdraw and leave you to think what you will all you want.

What satisfaction is there in being right? And why on earth do you think you have to be? And even if you are, what is so marvelous about being right anymore than what is so terrible about being wrong. Is there a wrong? Someone thinks one way, and you think another. This is not new to you. Why are you always surprised when someone disagrees with you?

Nor are you to become a dissembler. No, you are not to be wishy-washy and placating. But you can a listener be. You can be more neutral, not evasive. Being direct is good, but you can sprinkle a few "so it seems to me" to remind yourself of your fallibility and give the other person some ease.

And never be hesitant to say to another: "You could be right." Practice saying: "You could be right." See how that feels on your lips.

That is such a lovely thing to say to another Human soul who, just like you, is striving for Truth. Lean closer to Truth with the love in your heart that gives others space to let their hearts roam free as well.

With all your might, do not cut off the heart of another Human Being. You would not do that if you thought. And yet hearts on earth have been cut off right and left through thoughtlessness.

What is it that My Human children think is at stake when someone sees differently than they? Is there some reason why someone must see as you do? How does that profit you in the short or long run? Is it for your ego's gratification that you crave agreement so?

Today, have the idea that when someone disagrees with you, that they honor you. Have you not thought that they were disparaging you?

You who believe so much in the concept of freedom must give way to it in actuality.

Consider disagreement like a diamond, and turn the shining diamond from one facet to another. Regardless from whatever angle one looks at it, it is still a diamond. Two or more hearts still make one diamond.

Consider that each opinion is like a stick that holds up the world. If you knew that, you would not want to take one stick away.

Consider that each opinion is one step of a flight of stairs, and each leads higher.

Consider opinions like acrobats who stand tall on one another.

Consider opinions like a deck of cards. It doesn't matter so much in which order they are spread. They all get shuffled in the end.

Let opinions fall where they may. They are, after all, only opinions.