judgment

Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.

People who love themselves, don__ hurt other people. People who love themselves have no reason to ever judge another person on looks. There is simply no need. People who love themselves no longer look at beauty on a sliding scale or as a competition. There is nobody more beautiful or less beautiful than anyone else, including themselves. People who love themselves no longer see fat or skinny, tall or short, fair or dark skin, gay or straight, strong or weak. They only see people. Beautiful, beautiful people.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Let us not be judged by actions, but by means.

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don__ measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self.Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy.Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself.Otherwise, cede your gavel.

I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I__ in.Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get over this weird need to be morally superior to me and to the other people in this world.And let me be imperfect. I assure you, my imperfections drive me to improve.Let me love myself. I assure you, loving myself despite my faults will only make me a better person.Let me be my own judge. I assure you, I__l be more fair and just than you ever will.Let me be the owner of my own intentions. I assure you, there isn__ another soul on earth who knows what my real intentions are but me.Love and acceptance despite ongoing and glaring imperfection is all I__e ever tried to attain with this blog. For me. For you. For everyone. And I__l never stop.

Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit.

He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.

I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this_ Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world had long before measured as lost or gone. Some of the people who were able to look at the dirtiest, the poorest, the gays, the straights, the drug users, those in recovery, the basest of sinners, and those who were just_ plain_ different.They were able to look at them all and only see strength. Beauty. Potential. Hope.And if we boil it down, isn__ that what love actually is?

The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you__l ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live.

To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help.

Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.