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A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity (Page 93) 

 By William Samuel

A DIALOGUE ABOUT JUDGMENT

"Humanly speaking, when we say something is bad, what happens?"

"We don't like it."

"What then?"

"We attempt to get away from it, change it, heal it or destroy it. If these fail, we may attempt to get over our dislike of it.

"How?"

"Perhaps by attempting to understand it, to see the 'good' in it or alter our actions such that the threat will no longer be a threat."

"Isn't it because it appears to be a threat that humanity decides it doesn't like it in the first place?"

"Yes. If it appears that something is likely to upset our pattern of comfort, we establish an immediate dislike for it. The unknown is particularly feared, and, ordinarily, if we conquer our fear we conquer our dislike. Our judgments of bad stem from the belief that what has been called bad possesses the power to disturb our tranquility. How inane and foolish every bit of this appears when the Messianic Light blooms within, revealing Tranquility itself to be our unchanging Identity; revealing, in effect, that the very name 'Tranquility' is our well-being! What power on earth can change the name I am?"

"Isn't what we call 'good' that which we believe will fortify our sense of well-being and make us happier?"

"Absolutely, and this human determination of 'good' is no better than its opposite. Human good is only the other end of the judgmental scale established by the judgment that something is bad. You can't have one without the other. The instant we cut a circular rope it has two ends. There can't be a personal determination of 'I like' without having 'I don't like.' Identity itself-the 'real' Identity-is infinitely above and beyond either of these determinations. Since neither 'good' nor 'bad' has the power to exist outside judgment, they have no authority outside personal judgment. There is no power in their seeming when we end the judgment."

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