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A Message from Lord Sananda

Life at the physical level involves a constant state of comparison, of relativity, and of making evaluations on each experience. The challenge for all, and the opportunity for those who avail themselves of it, is in the meaning that is attached to each experience. It is the habit of many to judge the situation, object, person, feeling, or other element that is evaluated, in relative terms of good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, high or low, dark or light, etc. There is no essential harm done in the assessment itself. Rather, the difficulty arises from the value judgment and the emotional meaning that goes along with it.

This is at the core of the difference between judgment and discernment. Discernment is the process of assessing and evaluating one’s experience and determining the degree to which it serves, or does not serve, the enhancement of your purpose. Judgment is the process of separation. Discernment allows for all the possible range of experiences, but knows them as tools in service to the growth of wisdom, understanding, and consciousness. When we judge, we always separate a thing from the whole by making it better or worse, higher or lower, noble or ignoble; something to be sought or avoided. Quite often, the judgments we make are inseparable from our agenda, the pre-determined form we have created based on our belief about our life. There is a desire to pursue, and to embrace as good, all that we believe brings our agenda closer to fruition. There is an equal and opposite desire to avoid that which we believe interferes with our desire. In, and of, itself this is to be considered a natural tendency, a logical response to what we believe our experience teaches us.

The problem occurs when we allow our judgment to cause the fragmentation of our experience into the worthy and unworthy. When this occurs, we have lost our awareness that there is only Oneness. Everything – that is without exception, people, places, situations, feelings, etc. – is Source. There is nothing that is not one with the Divine Energy. We have linear experiences in our third dimensional state of consciousness that cause us to believe otherwise, but there are no separate parts to Spirit. If this is so, then which part of Spirit are we to judge as unworthy; which part is more worthy? Spirit does not judge itself; it knows only perfection. This is what is meant by the statement that to judge is to separate. As long as I am judging I am making choices as to which parts of Spirit I am willing to accept and which parts I am not.

The question then naturally arises “If I do not make judgments, then how will I know which way to go?” This is a good question, and one of great importance for all who seek true knowledge of the highest aspects of the Self. The answer brings us back to discernment. The difference is in the emotional construct and mental perspective. That is to say, that discernment and judgment both begin with an assessment or evaluation of an experience. It is where we choose to go with the result that is the key.

If we judge our experience and find it worthy, we have chosen to give it that meaning and we infuse it with the power of our emotion that draws it in and holds it close to us. Likewise, if we find it unworthy, we have again given it our meaning, infused it with the power of our emotion that pushes it away from us.