What’s Their POV ?
Our focus this week — Dec 3-9: “Perspective”
Today’s MotD: What’s Their POV ? One way we can broaden our perspective is to listen to other peoples’ points of view. We don’t have to agree or even accept it but we are encouraged to at least listen. If anything, just to gain insight into where they are coming from.
It seems that more and more we, as a society, are separating ourselves from others based solely on our own POV, thinking that if someone has a different view than we do that we must avoid them, sometimes to the point of demonizing them. This creates a society of us vs them instead of a society where we collectively are more accepting and tolerant.
Another way to gain different POVs is to travel to places (literally or virtually) that are outside of our comfort zone. Seeing and learning how other people live and thrive, their culture, their beliefs, help broaden our viewpoint. Again, we don’t have to agree or accept them, just be open to acknowledging their POV.
For instance, traveling to Europe years ago, opened my eyes to a whole world of new experiences that helped me see beyond my little world of living in a small town in Florida. The architecture alone exposed me to structures that were built centuries before anything built here in the U.S. And our trip to Egypt revealed structures that were built several millennia before anything in the U.S and Europe.
Essentially, we’re encouraged to be open to the world beyond just our own POV…we just might learn something that will help broaden our horizons and expand our potentialities. For example, it was our trip to Egypt that ignited my mandala art career. Prior to that it was just flat and lifeless.
How about you ? Are you open to listening to another person’s POV ? Do you tend to avoid anyone who seems different than you ? Do you assume someone else’s POV rather than asking them ?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 