To Judge or not to Judge? There is no Question

Look what happens to the scale

when love

holds

it

it

stops

working

                                Kabir

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Am I OK?

Is that person OK?

Who has value?

Who does not?

We walk through life

acting like horses in a small pasture

who must figure out

whose on top

who gets to choose

the prime pile of hay

who gets first nibble when the

treats arrive

we measure ourselves

and we measure others

we pull out the scales of

wealth, education, power, and attractiveness

and we weigh

and measure

and we accept and reject

we praise and condemn

we raise ourselves up

and we push others down

we are job creators

they are the moocher class

but if we look through the eyes of

the Sacred

through the eyes of love

every person is sacred

wounded perhaps

flawed?

of course

but sacred

a child of God

and infinitely

valuable

can I always see this way?

No

there are people out there I abhor

(although they may not be the people other’s abhor)

and so

this day

I seek to be aware of myself

With all my flaws, and pain, and fear

and all my joy, and love, and goodness

I seek to be aware of the sacred within

and I seek

to be present, to identify with, and to act in love

to all I meet

who in the eyes of the Sacred one

are

just

like

me