Can we overcome our differences and disputes?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 22, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“Ideological conflicts are getting out of hand all over the world. What would be the best way to avoid them?”

Our ideological, cultural, religious, and social differences and diversity are not a problem.

We are all born unique, individualistic, and subjective, and our sense of “self” and uniqueness have been developing and intensifying throughout human history.

We can never erase or even suppress our diversity and differences, and without debates, criticism, and constant arguments, we would never develop and grow.

What we need to do is to change our present attitude and intention in using our differences and diversity.

At the moment, we use them in a mutually exclusive way through the ruthless competition. We want to survive and succeed at each other’s expense, and we try to prove that what we have is superior to what others have, and we constantly try to eradicate the viewpoints and identities of those we do not agree with. We use our differences and diversity in a mutually destructive way, like cancer.

Instead, we can learn, we can understand, and actually “viscerally” feel that we are all parts and elements of a single, mutually integrated whole. Then we can also learn to use our diversity and unique differences to complement each other instead of annihilating one another.

We can learn and practice how to open an unprecedented, total, and unbounded consciousness and perception of reality by seeing and experiencing reality through each other instead of going against each other.

When we overcome our instinctive distrust, animosity, and rejection towards each other and start “entering each other” by willingly and selflessly serving each other’s needs and desires according to each other’s viewpoints without any egocentric or subjective bias, we reverse our perception of reality and consciousness, finding ourselves in a world that is unlimited by time or space, untouched by physical life or death.

And we can reach this actual and tangible sense of existence here and now, without the need to pass away from this “physical life” first.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.