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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” ~ Rumi

“Stop and look around, what do you see? If everything you look at is judged or analyzed in some way, then you are unable to truly see what you are looking at.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Why should we be enslaved, dying the slow death of our past, when the birth of our becoming is available to us at any moment.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Judge not, for what you see are perceptions of yourself.” ~ Chris W Metz

“If we must judge another, let us at least judge them by their most loving, noble and courageous acts, rather than summing them up based on their weakest and most frail moments.” ~ Chris W Metz

“It is our judgment of things that hides their beauty. Every moment of every day is beautiful, it is only our judgment that prevents us from seeing this is so.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Why do we hate another person? Can we not look and understand their truths are different from our own? Is it reasonable to expect others to know our truths and follow them just because we believe in them? Does not everyone have a god given right to their own free will?” ~ Chris W Metz

“Tolerance is not the same as acceptance. Tolerance is indulging differing beliefs from one’s own. Having a differing belief isn’t intolerance. Not accepting that others have a differing belief - is.” ~ Shelley Broadway

"In the emptiness of space, there is no up, down, forward or backward. There is no east or west. In this same emptiness it could be said there is no right, wrong, good or bad. These are all creations of mind that give rise to distinctions and judgment, they are in essence ideas. We create these distinctions and ideas in our own mind and then believe them to be true. Only love is real." ~ Chris W Metz

“There is beauty in all things; it is only our judgment of them that hides what they would otherwise give to us.” ~ Chris W Metz

"You can never be truly happy when you judge others. To judge others is to live with constant pain and no one suffers the pain of judgment other than yourself." ~ Chris W Metz