“People would be so much more at ease if they acted on impulse rather than reason. That’s why drugs are so effective in curing mental illness—because they impair our judgment. Don’t try to think too much.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.”
Source: The Art of Dying
“Caring without caring,” is how my mother explained it. Thus a memsa can judge anyone – friend or stranger – and remain fair. They care without caring”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.”
“We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.”
“Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.”
Source: Kingdom Come
“Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.”
Source: Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
“We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects, and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact!”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams
“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else. The mark of mature students is that most of the time, they don’t do something else. They’re just here, living their life. Nothing special.”
“Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison.”
Source: Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook