Copper rule 10: Prove trustworthy in all your dealings

I used to be an anarchist... believed that if we only had freedom of action, the world would be perfect...What I did not think about is, that this kind of freedom in a community of people must build on trust, and all participants must be trustworthy...
Today I seek inner freedom, but also here trust is important. To be trustworthy is for me a possibility to live with a clean conscience -
"You can fool others, but you cannot fool yourself"
Going deeper into my concientious self

Copper rule no 9: Be prejudiced against no one

I meet all kinds of people at work.
In these times of transition, there are more and more people coming from other parts of the world to our community. Part of my job is to create meeting places between "etnic norwegians" and our new citizens. It is a huge task to remove the prejudices that exist on both sides; to remove the consciousness of separation - that "they" and "we" are different human beings. Of course we have different cultural expressions, but we are not different!
The sufi path of removing  the barriers between "me" and "you" makes it easier to embrace all kinds of cultural expressions. When I meet with prejudices of some kind - in myself or in others, I try to respond with a smile and these words:
An indian smile is as beautiful as a norwegian smile. :-)

Picture: From The Sufi Saint School in Ajmer. You may read more about the support for this school in SufiNews from Europe on Kinship here:  www.sufi.no