“Love is the embodiment of profound acceptance, the recognition of oneself, another, and all of existence, free from the influence of any ideas or beliefs.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You would have done whatever you had to do to survive the moment. And you would have received no judgment from me either way, do you understand?”
Source: Blood Water Paint
“Whoever is busy trying to know himself has no time to notice the faults of others. Judge yourself and you will stop judging others.”
“It was easier not to face judgment, especially from your own kind.”
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
“Life is too short to be wasted on judgmental whim. Put your judgment aside, and have some ice-cream.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“The judge wants you to hide and apologize for being onstage. I want you to bust onstage through the door with a smile on your face and drink in your hand. What I learned was not that you won't have any doubts, not that you will never be nervous, but that you have to acknowledge that fear and proceed with courage.”
Source: Improvise.: Scene from the Inside Out
“If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.”
“Yes, it was trying to get her under, this world with its mighty self-satisfaction, with its smug rules of conduct, all made to be broken by those who strutted and preened themselves on being what they considered normal. They trod on the necks of those thousands of others who, for God knew what reason, were not made as they were; they prided themselves on their indignation, on what they proclaimed as their righteous judgments. They sinned grossly; even vilely at times, like lustful beasts—but yet they were normal! And the vilest of them could point a finger of scorn at her, and be loudly applauded.
'God damn them to hell!' she muttered.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“To people accustomed to reason about the forms in which their religious feeling has incorporated itself, it is difficult to enter into that simple, untaught state of mind in which the form and the feeling have never been severed by an act of reflection,,,but to him this would have been an effort of independent thought such as he had never known;”
Source: Silas Marner
“We often think God puts us under judgment when we err, but I believe what happens is we pull ourselves out from under His grace.”
Source: Identity Thief: Exposing Satan's Plan to Steal Your Purpose, Passion and Power