60. Love More, Judge Less: How to Live a Life of Compassion
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Whether conscious or subconscious, judging others is harmful and – as it usually comes from a place of lack or insecurity within ourselves – says infinitely more about us than whomever we judge. Listen as Monica and Michael discuss how we can fight our instinct to judge through an embrace of mercy and compassion, and how doing so not only creates a chain reaction that truly makes the world a better place, it also leads us to transforming into who we want to be.
We never see something negative in another person so we can change them, we see it so we can change ourselves. – Michael Berg
Further readings:
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
Radical Compassion by Tara Brach
Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek
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| 0:00.0 | Where we get trapped by judgment is when it's a crutch we lean on because we feel inadequate |
| 0:14.8 | in some sense. |
| 0:16.2 | And I do think most judgments stem from that state of being or state of mind. |
| 0:20.5 | And nobody wants to admit that, right? |
| 0:22.4 | Negative thoughts arise when we measure ourselves against someone else and doubt our own self-worth. |
| 0:27.9 | Anybody who is judging another person is lacking. |
| 0:31.0 | Show me a person who's judging. |
| 0:32.9 | I'll show you a person who lacks. |
| 0:34.5 | Show me a person who does not judge. |
| 0:36.5 | I'll show you a person who's fulfilled. |
| 0:38.1 | You never, ever, ever see something negative in another person so that you can change them. |
| 0:45.6 | The only reason you see something negative in another person is because there's an aspect |
| 0:50.7 | of that in you and you need to change that. In every situation in life, we are |
| 0:55.7 | given a choice. We can either see somebody as separate from us, or we can see them as exactly |
| 1:01.5 | as we are doing our best, struggling just to figure things out. Welcome, welcome. We are back |
| 1:10.3 | with Spircially Hung hungry, episode 60. |
| 1:13.4 | I hope everybody's having a great summer. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, kind of end of summer by the time people are listening to us. |
| 1:20.0 | Possibly. Although some of our kids don't start school until September 13th, so not sure what that is. |
| 1:27.3 | That's work and time off for kids. So I am excited |
| 1:32.9 | about this topic. We are going to break the barriers of judgment today, hopefully. So first, |
| 1:40.2 | let's just talk about what, you know, whenever we say judgment, it's automatically |
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