<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The absurd view that other communities, religions,... > The absurd view that other communities, religions, races, cultures, states, and nations, are somehow "less than" one's own comes from an underdeveloped consciousness and low self-esteem. {{Prejudice and supremacism reveal that people do not possess a balanced framework of compassionate independence and self-respect, which is necessary to respect others.}} We do not belong to any national construct, or group thought-form, but in fact belong to the great and beautiful world, and to the entire universe, as free and unique conscious beings. {{Prejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging.}} {{Out of the hobbled spirit of attachment, and the insecure need of belonging, come the gross judgments against those who do not belong.}} **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->