Spiritually dead people do not understand. Instead, they see that which is a pearl as something worthless. Therefore, you should not throw pearls before swine, but these days, rather encourage and help others instead of holding them in a specific position.
Judging is the easiest thing in the world, and the old expression ’Do not throw pearls before swine’ means precisely that you have judged people to be either enlightened or unenlightened.
In other words, you should not give the best to or waste the best on the unenlightened, if person X and person Y are too daft to understand.
Because obviously, we should not give those people anything of which they do not understand the value, and who better to assess whether someone understands the value of something than all of us enlightened people around them?
All of us enlightened people in the sense of being able to understand the value.
Well, I guess I will have to admit that I am probably not one of those people that always understand the value. I suppose that means I belong to the group of swine before whom you should not throw pearls.
I actually prefer to belong to that group, because it sure seems like a lot of pressure to put on yourself, if you constantly have to appear as someone who understands everything and has the energy to appreciate everything.
I do not believe that anyone has that kind of energy. I certainly do not know those people.
I imagine that this is really a part of life, not always being able to see the value or appreciate enough in the way that the senders would want or expect.
Perhaps, circumstances do not always permit that we move at the same level of abstraction.
We can all get lost, and sometimes our light is a little less bright, or the bulb has turned off completely.
This is exactly when we need someone to throw pearls before us.
Perhaps we grunt like the swine, perhaps we squeal, or perhaps there is no sound at all, but in my experience, each pearl thrown will pay off eventually, either in the short, medium or long term, or perhaps all the way at the end when looking back.
If we do not find that it pays off right now in our view of the situation and reaction, based on our own convictions—it actually pays off anyway.
You see, it always pays off to do your best in terms of our own development in this new era, where we need to retrain our awareness.
We need to improve our skill at seeing beyond the power of judgement after thorough practice at the black and white paradigm that we have now abandoned and which may continue to affect our preconceptions and interpretations.
Thus, every time we refrain from throwing pearls before swine, we refrain from throwing pearls before ourselves and achieving greatness through our actions.
Therefore, we need to keep opening every oyster we meet, or at least try to.
Because, there are many pearls that we have not found yet, and help is needed from all of us to remind the people who have chosen to close their hearts that they too have a pearl inside.
Those who present themselves as enlightened and ’diagnose’ others as the unenlightened would do well to take a step back and remind themselves that the people who challenge us the most are often the ones who need us to not give up on them.
We can all end up in a place where we become a version of ourselves that is not worth any pearls.
There will also be a day where a lot of the people that we may want to give up on right now will be able to see themselves and life through a new and stronger lens and show the people around them who threw pearls before them that the pearls were never wasted.
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