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Every judgement is a condemnation.

The German word for judgement is “Urteil” and it illustrates more readily than the English term the power and intention behind it. “Teil” means “part”, “Ur-teil” denotes the partitioning and separation that destroys inter-human connectedness and turns people against each other. At the onset of civilization, people were not only closely connected, but also supported each other. Since they started to judge one another, they have gone their separate ways.

Every judgement is also a condemnation because it distorts our vision into seeing only our own version of truth and makes it impossible for us to recognize the truth. This is because by casting our judgements, we create our own version of truth and become separated from the truth. Judging also separates us from others because to be able to judge them, we have to distance ourselves from them. A much better way would be to seek closer connection with them, so that we can better understand what they feel.

It is so much more interesting to listen to our fellow humans and grow to understand them - especially those that are different to us - than it is to judge and condemn them.

When we perceive something, we can either judge it or we can acknowledge it. When we judge it, we make up our own truth about it, which clouds our perception. It does not matter whether we do this for scientific, political, religious or philosophical reasons, we still no longer look at the facts but we concern ourselves with our own interpretation, our own image of what happened.

If you place your own interpretation above the truth, you not only judge but also condemn your fellow humans, and with that, yourself.

We humans have neither the power nor the right to decide what is true and what is not true. We cannot decide whether something is right or wrong. The truth is and remains untouchable. All we can do is acknowledge it and live by it. Humanity will only survive if it acknowledges and lives by the one unifying divine truth in justice, liberty, fraternity, equality and unity.