In continuation to my ‘Living without Judgement ’ blurb:

I’ve been reflecting on the fact that when you personally do something, anything, it’s OK! – it’s justified, you give yourself the benefit of doubt, you are righteous (in your own eyes)!

However, if you see someone else doing the same, or similar thing a little while later – you usually end up calling them all the names under the sun.

So why this double standard? Why do we get angry at others when they make choices, which from our ‘outside’ perspective, are wrong or ill-advised?

Could it be that we see in them things that we don’t want to see in ourselves?

Could it be that deep down on some level (although we hate to admit it) we recognise that we are sometimes wrong, sometimes mistaken and make choices that are ill-advised?

As I’ve mentioned before, I believe the world is reflective in nature, and that ‘whatever we give out, we get back in some way’.

So when we judge another person and secretly decide what the outcome of such a wrong doing should be, we cause the Universe to reflect that judgement back on us.

In a sense we are own Judge and Jury.

So, why not try giving other people the same flexibility and love that you so kindly afford yourself. I understand this to be one of the many lessons of the ancient teaching ‘to love your neighbour as yourself’.

You might argue that this kind of idea is not practical?!

And I’d agree, I’m not sure that a national Judicial system could run on such a philosophy, but I think that our own personal lives could run pretty well, using such an idea as the basis of a different type of life, a life without judgment, with a little less stress and a life filled with a bit more love and compassion.

So say after me:

“I allow people to be themselves, I give people the permission to live their lives the way they want to live, to learn the lessons of life - their own way.”

“I love, accept and forgive myself and everyone in my life”