The Value of Judgments

by Merci Gracia | Aug 1, 2013 | Acceptance, Judgments, Love, Self-Awareness

If you notice your attention frequently focused outward on the shortcomings of others, it’s a sign that you need to take a look within, at yourself. What you see as others’ faults actually gives you a clue about something way more important than...

Judgments Hurt You

by Merci Gracia | Apr 5, 2013 | Choices, Discernment, Judgments

You can find something wrong with just about anything – if you want to. The same goes for finding what’s right. But these two approaches to life have very different consequences. Looking for and finding problems will wear you down and lower your...

Judge Another, Forgive Yourself

by Merci Gracia | Feb 19, 2013 | Acceptance, Compassion, Conditioning, Forgiveness, Judgments, Truth

Because your subconscious mind doesn’t distinguish between thoughts you have about yourself and those you have of others, all your judgments are felt by you first and foremost. And since you are seeing others through the filter of your unique conditioning, your...

Everyone’s Best Is Different

by Merci Gracia | Jan 18, 2013 | Awareness, Compassion, Judgments

Believing that anybody could have acted differently than they did is purely hypothetical. The truth is, if they could have done better, they would have. Each person responds to this moment uniquely, based on their interpretation of all that’s come before....

When Two Tangle

by Merci Gracia | Nov 6, 2012 | Conscious, Forgiveness, Judgments, Self-Awareness

No matter which side of an issue you’re on, when you’re in a tangle with someone, you’re both vibrating at the same level. What you’re arguing over doesn’t matter nearly as much as the energetic charge that keeps you stuck in the...