Shaming people for what they ‘should have known’ seldom supports progress... (

Shaming people for what they ‘should have known’ seldom supports progress. Helping them to see what they don't yet see, does. it's very easy to look down at those who don't yet see what you see. But where does theat get us? Nowhere> THey are many things I did, because I didn't know better. And even if there is something I now see, there are also many things I don't yet see. We are all victims, and victors, of context. If you believe in individual and collective transformation, you realize that we are always at a particular point in our development. We see through the eyes of our context, and as that context evolves, so do our realeyesations. That process can't happen alone. THe road to change is fraught with patterns and potholes. And we need each other to traverse new terrain. We need each other to be our eyes, as we forge new pathways of possibilites. Let's do that with compassion. Let's do that with reverence for each other's contribution. WE are all seeing each other home. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations