Assumptions Hurt

I'm in love with this fantastic article:
http://www.supernaturalhorses.com/articles/2011/01/dangerous-patterns-in-horsemanship-in

My highlights:
*In order to feel good about US do we have to put THEM down?
*I tell my students at my clinics: “You don’t have to be a ‘dressage rider’, you don’t have to be a ‘natural horseman’, you don’t even need to be a ‘Dressage, Naturally’ person. You are you. You have your dream with your horse, just like everyone else.” Dressage, natural horsemanship, and Dressage, Naturally are names of bodies of knowledge that can serve you. You don’t have to be them, you don’t have to promote them. You don’t need to take on that burden. Be you and use them to help you fulfill your dream. It is your dream. Free yourself. Show the world what you can do. Share, if you like, where you got your information, but shed the label... You just may be more than that label can describe anyway. In the words of don Miguel Ruiz: “You are not something. You are not nothing. You are something else.”
*And if you must create a change, then use the gift of understanding how to cause their ideas to change without making them feel wrong
*If everything we have learned from our journey with horses stops as soon as we look at another human, then they are lessons lost. If we have not learned to see the subtlety of quality beyond labels, then they are lessons lost. If it is more important to us to be righteous than compassionate, then they are lessons lost. Let’s help the innocent who are in trouble, but know that if we fight against fighters we become fighters. If we hate the haters, we become haters. By going against ‘them,’ we become ‘them’.