<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a... > {{Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.}} Everyone must "fight" for something at times, although some struggle more than others, and often unnecessarily. {{Force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.}} Brute physical, intellectual and emotional conflict often causes a great deal of collateral damage. {{There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.}} As you spiritually mature you will begin to look at conflict in less self-centered ways. You will realize that engagement is an option. {{There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.}} {{Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.}} Flow. You don't have to win. You don't have to be right. {{You don't always have to teach the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.}} Be wise. {{Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.}} Time is a masterful teacher. Silence is a masterful teacher. {{When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement.}} But whatever you do, always do it in love and not anger, and in compassion, not contempt. **Source:** [[books/Simple Reminders Book (2014-2018)|Simple Reminders]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->