Our days on earth are short, and we want to enjoy each one of them. Depression and joy simply can’t dwell in the same heart, so I urge you to find so many things to be happy about that there is no room left for depression.
Some of our most valuable relationships are with those who are different from us because they often bring in new perspectives and information, and challenge us in needed ways. Differences are stimulating and catalytic. We may not initially like those who seem different from us, and we may not like what they stir up in us, but that’s no measure of their value to us or of how we might feel about them once we have come to know them.
Lake, Gina . Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships
Judgments can prevent us from being happy in relationships that are compatible on an egoic and personality level, but more important, they can prevent us from forming potentially meaningful relationships, ones that are destined to either help us unfold our potentials and talents or learn the lessons we came here to learn. Judgments can especially interfere with these types of relationships when compatibility and attraction are not at their highest. For superficial reasons, we may overlook a relationship that might be very fulfilling and important to our soul’s intensions for this lifetime.
Lake, Gina —-Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships
We assume that being different is wrong, bad, or at least inferior, without realizing that the standard by which we judge others is our own flawed conditioning..
Ephesians 4:31-32Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.(attitude: loving and forgiving just like God forgave you)