Judge not

We tend, wrongly, to judge people by their actions. It’s an understandable mistake but still a mistake. It comes from the belief that we are what we do. That we are human doings.

A divine absence

Because it is a background virtue, humility (derived from the Latin for ‘low’) is best described in terms of what it isn’t. It isn’t ambitious, holds no opinions, declines to judge, has no enemies, does nothing unnecessarily, is unconcerned with image, doesn’t need notes.

The cardinal stupidity

If instead of blaming others I blame myself, what have I accomplished? Blame itself is the cardinal stupidity, not what is objected to, condemned or attacked.

Ego’s agony

What happened had to happen. How do we know this? Because it happened.

Loving our enemies

We love our enemies when we have no enemies. We have no enemies when judgment stops and the blame game ends, when we extricate ourselves from the habit of making other people wrong.