Judgment Detox Quotes

You create your reality with the thoughts you repeat and the beliefs that you align with. When judgment is your belief system, you’ll always feel unsafe, under attack, and defensive.

Remember: If we were happy and complete, we wouldn’t judge.

Judgment is the number one reason we feel blocked, sad, and alone. Our popular culture and media place enormous value on social status, looks, racial and religious separation, and material wealth. We are made to feel less than, separate, and not good enough, so we use judgment to insulate ourselves from the pain of feeling inadequate, insecure, or unworthy. It’s easier to make fun of, write off, or judge someone for a perceived weakness of theirs than it is to examine our own sense of lack.

We get a quick hit of self-righteousness when we judge others. It’s a reliable little crutch when we feel hurt, insecure, or vulnerable. Our judgments toward others seem to make us feel better than them—smarter, savvier, more enlightened, healthier, or wealthier.

The root cause of all judgment is the fear of not being good enough, not being worthy of love, and not being safe.

In response to this desolation, you’ll judge the special person for not being who you thought (or hoped) they were. When your idol falls, you fall with them. Whenever we believe anyone to be the source of our happiness or pain, we ultimately project our guilt onto them and begin the judgment cycle.

We must look closely at our shadow and shine light on it.

I’ve identified four specific kinds of toxic waste that can poison our minds: (1) pessimism, which usually produces chronically negative thoughts; (2) anxiety, which usually manifests as fearful and worried thoughts; (3) bitterness, which pollutes our thinking with discontented and envious thoughts; and (4) criticism, which pumps destructive judgmental thoughts into our minds.

lead from a place of compassion and forgiveness.

Love can seem far scarier to us than fear. We’re terrified to let love in, because we fear that when we do, we’ll be susceptible to more pain.

When you expose your fear to the light, suddenly there’s nothing to run from. You can see the fear as something outside of you, something you no longer need to identify

We put enormous effort into hiding our vulnerability, but it’s our vulnerability that truly heals.

You can witness the fear and judgment as an addictive pattern rather than a personality trait.

Let’s pray: I thank my higher self, the voice of love and wisdom within me. Thank you for granting me the willingness to open this book and begin this journey. I am willing to be free. I am willing to be happy. I am willing to witness my judgment without judgment.

use judgment to take the focus off my own feelings of inadequacy and I project those feelings onto someone else to feel relief.

The light in you is all I see

From a spiritual perspective, choosing fear and separation over love dissociates us from our truth.

How I perceive others is a direct reflection of the judgments that I have placed over my own life.