WHAT IS EVIL? What is the distinction between recognizing something evil and judging it? Evil is an absence. It is not a presence. Evil is the absense of Love – uncontaminated, conscious Light. The remedy for an absence is a presence, not an action. You cannot imprison, deport, or kill evil. Not even a great army can defeat evil. It can only defeat another army. Where there is an absence of Love, there is fear, judgment and violence. If you fear and judge the darkness, you step into the darkness. Evil is the darkness. You cannot fight evil without joining it. You can recognize it without joining it. The difference between judgment of evil and recognition of evil is your emotional reaction. If you are repulsed and frightened, you are judging what you encounter. If you can see and angry, or deceitful, or violent person for what he or she is – a fellow student in the Earth school who is in extreme pain – you can interact with that person appropriately. You do not need to trust her with your savings. You also do not need to feel superior or righteous. When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself – with yourself – not with the other person. If you react self-righteously to evil, look inside yourself for the very thing that so agitates you, and you will find it. If it were not there, you would simply discern, act appropriately, and move on. When you have an emotional reaction to evil – the absence of Love – that absence is in you. Understanding this is very important because it enables you to personally contribute to the reduction of evil. You do that by changing yourself into the loving person that you would like others to be. Until you do, you will be a part of the evil that so repulses you. The change from the absence of Love in a human life to the presence of Love in a human life is the creation of authentic power – the alignment of the personality with the soul. Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love in to acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make. Gary Zukav, Soul to Soul Thanks, Linda LeBoutillier
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:55:11 +0000
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