Judge Not Lest You Lose the Way of Love
If all of creation didn't share something in common, something invisible...yet in some ways more real than the objects that reveal and manifest that relationship...
... Then how could the death of a tree bring life to the forest, or the storm-tossed waves that lash the sea cliffs serve to create and sustain the infinite creatures that cling to those rocks?
And were it not for this invisible similarity, the sharing of an underpinning Life that both transcends, transforms, and integrates all of creation...
... There could be no such life-giving exchange, and no life to be exchanged.
So, as dis-similar as things may seem--the shark from the star, a hardened rock from out of which grows a delicate fern... they are far more similar than they seem.
So it holds true with those in pain we tend to judge because of the pain they stir in us, and that then judges them...
... And all the greater our collective loss for not realizing and then practicing the truth inherent in its Divine revelation.