My child:

"Take heed lest you despise one of these little ones." These words do not apply solely to little children; they apply equally to new ideas or ideals: little, because they are new to the people of a new race; new, because not fully grown. A new race is being conceived and born; a new age is opening. Change is the order of the day.

Prejudice and pride can work as much injury to the soul as deliberate crime. The one great prize for the humanity of this age to strive for is the gaining of an open mind. Of course, it is hard to gain.

Whatever you have gained of good, retain and use, but do not deny the good that some other person has gained. When there is a struggle in your mind between the two, be wise enough to allow experience to guide your course of action.

When an individual permits a personal bias in some one direction to cloud his power of righteous judgment, he jeopardizes his power of correct vision in other directions, and correct vision is dependent upon adherence to the divine fundamental laws of growth. It is not easy for man to understand that two diametrically opposed methods of action may both be right.

-- Temple Teachings, Vol. 2, page 229