Quotes About Judgment

Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.'1 In other words, it is not events out there that cause our problems but rather our reactions to them: the stories we tell ourselves.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' Later, in the nineteenth century

When we are customarily annoyed by what we see as the failings of others, we are judging them by a ludicrous standard: we are assuming that they fully understand our desires, quite possibly better than we do, and that they have nothing to do but arrange things to fall seamlessly into place around our probably ill-communicated wishes.

They expect you to act as an Angel does, when they do not even know; if their souls are going to Heaven or Hell. -MillYentei

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand

Those who believe in karma do not blame. They do not judge. They accept that humans live in a sea of consequences, over which there is limited control. So they accept every moment as it is supposed to be. They act without expectation.

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation.

Who decides what justice is? How does one end this unending spiral of revenge where everyone believes they are right and their opponents are wrong?

When we stop loving, we embrace adharma. We judge, condemn and reject people. Invalidate them in hatred. We stop being generous. Like the Kauravas, we become mean-minded, petty, stingy, clingy and possessive. Or like the Pandavas, we become clueless, confused, in search of direction and wisdom. We forget the path to Madhuvan. We entrap ourselves in Kurukshetra.

We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us. Bhartrihari

In fact the English word 'demon' is full of a value judgement that is wrongly attributed to the words rakshasa and asura.

A world created by observation evokes insight, hence affection, for we see the hunger and fear of all beings. Life becomes a performance on a stage (ranga-bhoomi) aimed to nourish and comfort the other, while deriving nourishment and comfort from their delight. Krishna's performance (leela) leads to him being worshipped as Ranga-natha, lord of the stage. He never judges, so he sees no one as a victim. This is how he begins The Gita:

What may seem like a good deed from one point of view may not be seen as one from another point of view. Thus

The aim of his narrative is to remind all not to judge people without knowing their story. Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right

sometimes an action we think is right turns out to be wrong.

Those who believed they were righteous never listened.

We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us.

Animals take decisions all the time. Only humans have the option not to take decisions.

Those who believe in karma do not blame. They do not judge. They accept that humans live in a sea of consequences, over which there is limited control. So they accept every moment as it is supposed to be. They act without expectation. This is nishkama karma.