Years ago, we at the Chenrezig Project created and distributed bumper stickers that read “Don’t Believe Everything You Think”
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This idea was directed at a myriad of everyday situations, but perhaps found its most profound truth in revealing the nature of our judgments of others.
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We are always working with faulty information . . . personally intuited, insufficient, out-of-date and/or just plain wrong.
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As I sit looking at the endless trees out my window, I realize that each of them has deep-reaching roots buried in the ground, out of sight . . . and in the same way, every person we encounter has roots we cannot see.
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Roots that contain and feed our histories, experiences, understandings (and misunderstandings), fears, joys, habits, perspectives and karmic blossoms.
And, of course, our judgments.
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This is true of me (and you) as well.
If this resonates, consider keeping it in mind wherever you go, and while engaged in whatever you do.
Neither grief or a broken heart, or fear, precludes you from doing this.