The way I see it, racists are waving a large flag that says: "I feel deeply inadequate, insecure, fearful, flawed. I am terrified of anyone knowing about these feelings, so I will hide them by pretending to be better than others. This will protect me from ever having to feel how defective I really feel." Hitler, with his highly abusive background and his deep self-hatred for small part of himself that was Jewish, illustrates extreme of what I am talking about.

The problems of racism and violence will not be resolved until: 1) Our child-rearing practices change to produce people with high self-esteem instead of deep core shame. 2) Adults commit to their inner healing work which involves healing wounded aspects of themselves that resort to hate and violence when threatened.

It is necessary for each individual to practice a healing process on a daily basis, such as one that I teach called Inner Bonding (see resources below for a free course), so that gradually fears and false beliefs of wounded self are healed and replaced by truth: that we are all children of God, equal in eyes of God. When we heal our wounded selves, we will feel our oneness with all living beings, and would never think of harming another person. When we know ourselves to be love that is God, we will see and feel that love within each person we meet, regardless of what they look like on outside. When we learn to love our own soul - our own individual expression of Spirit - we will naturally love souls of others.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?", "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By My Kids?", "Healing Your Aloneness","Inner Bonding", and "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God?" Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com

Revamping our election process would give people like Dave an opportunity to run for office. We desperately need people who care more for common good than for their own popularity. We need brilliant, creative, honest and caring people to lead our country, but this will never happen with our present election system. We have incredible talent in this great country of ours, talent that could eliminate hunger and homelessness, and heal internal wounds that create health problems, drug abuse, racism, violence and crime. But this talent is rarely tapped because running our country has been based on earthly values of greed and power over others rather than spiritual values of honesty, compassion and caring.

Unfortunately, neither our government nor most big businesses are based on spiritual principles of compassion and caring about common good. I have no doubt that if our government was based on spiritual principles we would not have hunger, homelessness, crime, health problems, and drug abuse that are endemic to our modern society.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?", "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By My Kids?", "Healing Your Aloneness","Inner Bonding", and "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God?" Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com