Our sense of right and wrong, good and bad, makes it hard for us to be happy with countless people and situations we cannot control.
To be nonjudgemental means having the flexibility of the mind, and having the ability to abandon our attachment to what seems right to us.
When we give advice to someone and they ignore it and then do very well – can we get over our own righteousness to be happy for them?
Sometimes, we may perceive that the other person’s action is sure to make them miserable or that they already are miserable! But if they are genuinely happy with their choice, despite their miserableness, should we impose our standards?
Can we be generous enough to feel joy for them?
“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
Anais Nin