Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 7)

It is the task of the superiors to adapt with sympathetic understanding to the needs of each so that they may not only avoid any loss but even have the joy of increasing the number of good sheep in the flock committed to them. (From para. 7 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I make sympathetic understanding towards everyone in my family or community harder for myself by busily making judgments about others. Meditation teaches me to let go of judgment and to replace it with a habit of inclusion.