Unlimited Returns

We were always told, “Judge not, lest ye be judged, and with the same manner that you judge others, you shall be judged also”. This may have more meaning to our own lives than we could have ever possibly imagined. When we stand in judgment of others, when we criticize, condemn, embarrass, back-bite, or continually knit pick our neighbor, we are subsequently cursing ourselves to the same fate. As human beings (and spirits) we tend to imagine that people are using the same scale to evaluate us as the one we have put in place toward others. It’s similar to the thief who is convinced that everyone around him is surely stealing. If you condemn, you will feel condemned, if you ridicule- you will later feel ridiculed. If you have been two-faced or a gossip about your friends, then it is logical that in your mind others are surely gossiping about you. Whether these things are actually happening to you or not is uncertain, but you will certainly believe that they are. On the other hand, if you hold others with respect, try to help rather than to criticize, see the good in others rather than the bad, forgive rather than judge, you will surely be in a better mind set. You will feel comforted when you might have been neglected, you will feel supported when you might just as well have been ridiculed or scorned. The love you have planted once shall come back to you, possibly with unlimited returns.