How often do we judge another person’s worth by how like or unlike ourselves, he or she is?
Isn’t that what judgments are all about? We judge ourselves by what we think we should be like. Then we take the things we have mastered (or partially mastered) and make them a measuring stick for others.
“If I can be honest, why can’t other people?”
“I lost 20 pounds, why can’t other people control their eating and exercise habits?”
“I don’t cut other drivers off on the expressway, why did that jerk just go barreling past me and then cut back in front of me so fast I almost hit him? “
Everyone is doing his/her best with their awareness and beliefs at the time.
Just because someone is not like me, and has different beliefs than I have, doesn’t make them worth less than those who believe as I do.
Let your judgments go and life will be easier and happier.
Isn’t that what judgments are all about? We judge ourselves by what we think we should be like. Then we take the things we have mastered (or partially mastered) and make them a measuring stick for others.
“If I can be honest, why can’t other people?”
“I lost 20 pounds, why can’t other people control their eating and exercise habits?”
“I don’t cut other drivers off on the expressway, why did that jerk just go barreling past me and then cut back in front of me so fast I almost hit him? “
Everyone is doing his/her best with their awareness and beliefs at the time.
Just because someone is not like me, and has different beliefs than I have, doesn’t make them worth less than those who believe as I do.
Let your judgments go and life will be easier and happier.
