On ethical judgement

2006/

 Love sees too clearly, and thus cannot take refuge in certitudes. And so, every act of love is the awakening of judgment. It acts, for this is its nature, and the rightness or wrongness of that which it is moved to create it surrenders, keeping it as a secret for its divinity within the heart’s deep wisdom. Every act of love, therefore, is an act of consummate courage on behalf of the spiritual life. Castaneda called all such acts of love, impeccability. It is the recognition that the mind can in no way ascertain the fruits of any action in its depth.

Such is not its function. When you have acted from the heart, you have acted truly. Indeed, every act of love is the action of the divine radiance within you, moving through you, as an expression of your integrity, and as the law of your own being. Therefore, when you act from the heart, on account of its movement within you, you act out of freedom.

On the other hand, when your action is not directed by the heart but out of a conviction in moral precepts, traditions, values and standards, you act contrary to the judgment of God, which is nothing more nor less than the totality of existence, its interaction with itself, and all such movements as constitute the interaction of all of its individual and collective constituents at any given moment—but particularly at that very moment when you choose to act either from love or from the fallow and craven certitudes of the cultured mind.