An attitude of stubbornness can establish itself in your mind and heart today if you allow intolerance to thrive unchecked within you. During conversation, you may find yourself responding inflexibly to ideas that are in opposition to your own opinions and beliefs. Before you reject these notions, consider whether they offer hidden gems of wisdom that can benefit your life in some way. Releasing your obstinacy can help you open your mind to unfamiliar yet intriguing concepts that may expand your horizons and bring you closer to your next phase of evolution. Today may even be the day your life course changes as your point of view shifts.

However great the loyalty we feel toward our beliefs and opinions, we must maintain our willingness to entertain foreign notions if we want to continue to move toward eventual enlightenment. The fierceness with which we hold on to the tenets of our personal ideologies can be indicative of a fear of being proven wrong. True open-mindedness is often a matter of exploring every idea that crosses our paths, even when these contradict our long-held ideals. Though the discoveries we make can force us to confront inconsistencies in the philosophies that have served as the foundations of our lives, we reach a new phase of illumination when we reconcile ourselves to the significance of the new information we have received. The flexibility you exhibit today when confronted with ideals that differ from your own will help you move forward on your quest for knowledge and understanding.