We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his friend and fellow-sufferer. \u2014 C. G. Jung<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Both C. G. Jung and Jesus of Nazareth advocated non-judgment as a pathway to empathy. For Jesus, it was a willingness to consider the log in one\u2019s own eye, rather than the speck of dust in another\u2019s. For Jung, it was a willingness to see the \u201clowly side\u201d of one\u2019s own nature. Judgment, for Jung, is a projection of one\u2019s own \u201cshadow.\u201d<\/p>\n
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures. (CW 7, par. 439)<\/p>\n
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For Jung, judgment and condemnation are oppressive and interfere with feeling empathy. \u201cUnprejudiced objectivity\u201d enables a respect for facts and the individual who suffers from them.<\/p>\n
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Feeling comes only through unprejudiced objectivity. This sounds almost like a scientific precept, and it could be confused with a purely intellectual, abstract attitude of mind. But what I mean is something quite different. It is a human quality\u200a\u2014\u200aa kind of deep respect for the facts, for the man who suffers from them, and for the riddle of such a man\u2019s life. (CW 11; par. 519)<\/p>\n
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Unprejudiced objectivity is made possible by the individual who has accepted himself\u200a\u2014\u200aboth the successful attributes of the ego\/persona identity and those less acceptable dispositions lurking behind the curtain of full consciousness.<\/p>\n
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Jesus said simply, \u201cJudge not,\u201d for we are often unfavorably influenced by our own unacknowledged fralties.<\/p>\n
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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother\u2019s eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, \u2018Let me take the speck out of your eye,\u2019 when all the time there is a log in your own eye? First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother\u2019s eye. (Matthew 7.3\u20135)<\/p>\n
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Jung knew that this attitude of unprejudiced objectivity also arises from the more spiritualized transcendent view that supersedes the more self-righteous ego\/persona attitude. It is an expansive attitude that sees the larger context of events, and acknowledges that \u201ccalled or not called, God is present.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The truly religious person has this attitude. He knows that God has brought all sorts of strange and inconceivable things to pass and seeks in the more curious ways to enter a man\u2019s heart. He therefore senses in everything the unseen presence of the divine will. This is what I mean by \u201cunprejudiced objectivity.\u201d (CW 11; 519)<\/p>\n
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Condemnation oppresses, both the individual condemning and the one condemned. To condemn others oppresses them, but it also oppresses oneself\u200a\u2014\u200afor the condemnation has fortified the resistance to acknowledging one\u2019s own shadow attributes. The less savory attributes unaccepted within oneself often get projected onto others as judgment and condemnation. We are bound to condemn and judge others as long as we fail to accept ourselves\u200a\u2014\u200ato acknowledge the log in our own eyes.<\/p>\n
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Jesus was advising unprejudiced objectivity when he answered Peter\u2019s question, \u201cHow often shall I forgive? Seven times?\u201d Jesus responded: \u201cNot seven, but seventy times seven,\u201d or in other words, unceasingly.<\/p>\n
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Condemnation is a barrier to the self-reflective acknowledgement that our own inner lives have included many \u201cstrange and inconceivable things\u201d and that the the \u201cunseen presence of the divine will\u201d is forever active in the sometimes puzzling pursuit of fortifying our enduring souls.<\/p>\n
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JG Johnston<\/strong> ist Autor von Jungs unentbehrlicher Kompass<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200aNavigating the Dynamics of Psychological Types, and The Way<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200aThe Religion of Jesus Before Christianity. He is co-founder of Lebensatlas<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200aa website that assists people in living lives they wer born to live.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-well-being"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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