The Last Word on Criticizing
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If you have not yet succeeded in fulfilling the criteria to be a critic, yet still feel a necessity to provide
criticism, there is an alternative:
Sit and criticize yourself, very hard, from the bottom of your heart, until the other person hears.
If it comes from your heart, it will enter his as well.
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i swear, people are funny.
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This comment is so true, but again there are execptions to this method. I could sit and criticize myself from the bottom of my heart and there are some people who will not feel it in their heart. I have tried this with my relatives. It does not work when greed is involved and you lose a parent. Both of mine are in Heaven, but they are still with me, and will be in my heart forever.
Like I said in my last comment, I would of traded places with either of my beloved parents, but that was not possible. I pray everyday that I will be able to get the dignity back in my family. The relatives that I wish could feel what I am doing have hearts of stone. Again I still feel blessed to of had two great parents and will continue my mission in life to fight for their dignity. I also believe we are alive to help others in need and I do that while in the quest for the truth, I will do this the rest of my life.
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It is very critical, this last word, because it is absolutely necessary for anyone to fulfill certain criteria in order to be judge.
''Judge yourself first'' it is the nucleus of the dose and after that, think how much your intervention could be useful or not to your brother or sister.
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I know a lot of readers who could use this.
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It seems like many people crticize for fun or for sport.
Really, shouldn't criticism be to remove anything that is blocking the fulfillment of the need to soar to the zohar above the earth, and also to stimulate the desire that leads to doing that?
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Excelent!
I hope any one of us in dire need to hear this will hear very well!
Yom Kippur is approaching and it is a gift from G-d to us, to be used with sincere humility, and that's all that is required from us, at least in that day!
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This seems like a most important element in a persons life. I think I just might do this now.
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Excellent advice, how many times have we failed to do as you so very well put it ...."sit and criticize yourself, VERY hard, from the bottom of your heart, until the other person hears." Many great opportunities may have been lost for failing to examine ourselves, worst yet, how many up and coming, vibrant, aspiring , potentially promising young souls were CRUSHED before they even had a chance to fly like an eagle, because of ones lofty self-image, to criticize without compassion/wisdom?
One thing I feel (I may very well be wrong) it doesn't really matter if the person is a stranger or friend, or family member, or whatever, to criticize without compassion, it can be detrimental, so perhaps lets just keep our mouths shut. Just my opinion, I certainly am no great scholar, just a fellow human being, watching how we interact with one another.
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