Understanding Judgments & Opinions

"If you want to really benefit from the work
you will need to understand all your judgments,
all your opinions, in order to grow
and be open to the nourishment that is needed to grow."

"It's not possible to truly judge it until we truly understand it."

"You need to question the work to find out the truth about it
and to be open to the truth it expresses."

If we aren't open to the truth about it, what is the point in questioning it?
And why don't we question the things we ought to know the truth about?
Is it because we think we already understand it?
If we are not in touch with the truth of it all,
with truly understanding it,
these things are useless because they are shallow and hollow.
Then there is no depth and no fulfillment.

The judgments and opinions we have are only on the surface.
Because we form them based on what we can see of it.
Not based on how they actually are.

The thing is that we can't learn to deflate the ego
if we're only seeing things from the point of view of our ego.
Because the ego only wants to preserve itself
and that is its primary interest, not in deflating itself.

The quote for today is:
"It is our choices that tell us what we truly are,
far more than our abilities"
-J.K Rowling

Then there's this:

What are you going to do today?

"Your relationship to the work will do the work or won't.
Depends on the relationship with the work."

We don't give to the teaching
because the teaching wants or expects anything from us.
The teaching doesn't want or need anything from us.
We need it, but to get anything, we have to give to it.
Mostly our energy, time, effort.
Sacrificing and risking even what we think is good for us
to gain something even better.