Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

As a person I don't judge others because I have no idea what circumstances they are in.

An open mind is prerequisite to an open heart.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.