It is often wise to question our understandings on any given matter, there being an awareness that our immediate response might well be driven by our belief that we possess all the right answers. Doubt plays an important role in the life of every human person enabling each of us to patiently ponder on the thought that we don't know it all, thereby furnishing us with the thought that given more time our understandings can develop beyond that initially motivated by our prejudices.
Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.~Paul Cezanne
We learn through experience how easy it is to jump to conclusions when the object of our ire represents another perspective completely at odds with our own. It is then that we are obliged to question our own deeply held beliefs not easily processed by those angered by the thought that another's viewpoint has triggered a moment of reflection.
Our periods of doubt, those intervals filled with uncertainty are an introduction to the inner person, inviting us to examine our motives when judging others beneath contempt.
“If you are pained by external things it is not they that disturb you but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
When self righteous men dragged a fallen women before Jesus for judgement and punishment under the Laws of Moses, Our Saviour tactfully invited the accusers to consider their own concealed offences and misdeeds. The woman's accusers dropped their stones and rapidly disappeared.
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“As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
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