world transformers

All thought is comparison.
All thought is judgment.

Even, maybe especially,
the nonverbal thought of art.

We are judging creatures.
We judge ourselves.
We judge each other.

Iron glove judgments
and velvet soft judgments.

Harsh slambang judgments
and delicate impositions.

Who is judging?
The reptile brain, the mammal brain,
the human brain, the cosmic brain
-- each different from the others.
But all you, all me, all us.

We breathe in. We breathe out.
We breathe in anger and fear.
We breathe out anger and fear.
We breathe in lovingkindness.
We breathe out lovingkindness.

Thus we change the world.
Our world first.
Then others around us.

Spheres of influence.
World transformers.