Saturday, September 5, 2026
You begin to understand why great spiritual teachers gently warned against the judgment game.
When you think something is unjust, remember: it is not what it looks like. If you feel you have been unfairly served, it is not what it looks like. If you feel that you are deprived or in lack, it is not what it looks like. A judgment call is ultimately a curtain call.
A human perspective is like looking at a mosaic through a microscope. It is like looking at a Monet and judging one tiny sliver of it. We see “unsightly” globs of paint that look “horrific.” It is like looking at a tapestry and seeing frayed threads that make no sense to the myopic, disgusted critic.
Or it might be freezing a tiny slice of music by J.S. Bach and hearing only the notes that are dissonant, with no regard for the fluid movement between dissonance and consonance interlocking perfectly in a synchronized dance. If seen through a condensed, dense, and frozen viewpoint, Bach’s music could be considered a cacophony—something horrible. But as a whole, fluid, and undulating piece of art, it is perfected, through and through.
When you judge a situation, a person, a condition, or even the universe itself, you are assuming a position you cannot take. You stand outside the universe from inside another one, point a finger at this one, and say how horrible it is compared to your universe.
Whose universe are you in to stand in judgment of the one you are judging? Whose life and conditions are you in to stand in judgment of the one you are living? Whose body are you in to stand in judgment of the one you are moving?
Who is judging the judge? God, you say?
Then, who is judging God? No one, you say…curtain closed.
Even that judgment call is but a curtain call.