Hugh Prather Quotes

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Any time you start judging with an overly critical eye rather than letting things just be, and following what you think is right, it's complicated to find balance.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone.

Never judge. Step in their shoes.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.