Beating Yourself and Others Up: Discernment vs. Judgment
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When making choices in life, it is important to discern rather than judge. Discernment originates from a yearning to figure out what is for your highest good and what is most joyful life; it’s from love. Judgment is making an observation and condemning based on fear. Judging another originates from your yearning to protect what you have and be safe, not to expand into your most miraculous self.
When you discern, you will find far more solutions to any problem because it leaves you open. Nobody is ever truly wrong. Think about it this way: The only way anyone can ever do anything they do is based on the experience and perceptions they have.
For example, I used to have the perspective that Eckhart Tolle wrote in a way that was hard for me to read. That is discernment. When I figured this out, I just got the audios, et voilà! I enjoyed that much better. Judgement would have been “Eckhart Tolle is a pretentious writer that uses language that does not speak to the masses.” Reading Tolle’s writing is not right for me, but listening to him is. But that does not make him wrong.
Make peace with the fact that it is perfectly fine to figure out what feels best to you. That doesn’t mean you are putting anyone else down (after all, if you thought that way, you would be judging yourself—and that kind of defeats the purpose).
Jennifer Hough
