sparklekaz
Someone asked me.. What is your religion? I said, "All the paths that lead to the light".
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Post by sparklekaz on May 18, 2012 12:39:48 GMT
How does one judge a man's nature, his stature in life. When you reflect on the life you have led to this day, what comes to mind?
Do you feel that you have achieved what you set out to do, and are you the person you had hoped you would become? By whose standards do you measure yourself by?
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Post by Floraloak on May 18, 2012 12:52:54 GMT
Is it up to us to judge? Many people are stuck in self-judgment and in doing so they judge others too. Reflection is fine…but should we judge from this reflection? We can learn a lot through reflection… reflection without judgment gives us clear understanding; reflection with judgment gives us nothing more than self-punishment; self-torment; it has the potential to bury us in a deep whole… I think there are way too many people judging and not really reflecting on the goings on in their lives…
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Post by brummyben on May 22, 2012 11:27:34 GMT
My life up until recently has been a succession of failures and successes. Even some of my successes are not actually 'my' successes but are successes that other people have enforced on me, i.e do well at school, work, relationships. It is only now that I realise that the reason I want all success in those is because that is what I have been taught makes me successful. When I dont manage to make a success of something, it feels like a failure. Even circumstances that I have no control over can change into me being a failure in my life.
And when I judge myself in this way, I have to judge others. That is the only way that I can compare how successful my life has been thus far. And the judgement therefore becomes either successfull or failure depending on whether I am indeed better or worse than that person. A vicious circle.
There is a growing light inside of me however. Only small, but burning enough to sometimes snap me out of this madness. Do I need to be successfull and does it matter if I fail? Who is to say what I see as success is right and and what I see as failure is wrong? If I leave that judgement down to myself then I will just have a life of ups and downs.
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