(email)
Judgment occurs when we are more righteous than compassionate.
One tends to be righteous as a place for fear to hide.
By learning to have compassion for the righteousness insistent on diminishing and dominating others through their beliefs in projection, the edges of rigidity melt to invite a deeper fear out of hiding.
As deeper fears are met with compassion, both judgment and righteousness dissolve, allowing the innocence within you to find safety in the present—with no concept or projection to hide behind.
Even when you must speak in response to anyone’s judgment, if you allow compassion to communicate through you, perhaps it would ask the other person, “Who hurt you?”
If asked from an authentic space, it can interrupt the pattern of judgment to inspire them to ask, “Why are you asking who hurt me?” To which compassion replies, “I ask who hurt you because your words (and/or actions) are hurting me right now. If you are hurting another, it could only be your own unprocessed pain doing the hurting.”
Whether spoken aloud, from a distance through the establishing of boundaries, as a silent prayer of healing sent as you leave heated interactions, typed in response to social media comments, or as blessings sent out to humanity on a daily basis, this is the transformative beauty of heart-centered consciousness.
All for Love,
Matt