The underlying fault responsible for most of the world’s suffering is judgment. There is a healthy judgment. The problem is not so much with judgment as it is those emotions of resentment mingled with sustained judgment. Discernment is the good judgment, minus resentment.

From discernment spring all innocent offensive and defensive disadvantages. No need to close your eyes to injustice because you think it is a sin to judge. The sin connected to all judgments derives from adding resentment to what is perceived as real injustice.

Suspicious behavior may have plausible explanations that will make you glad you did not jump to conclusions.

You could judge someone to be a thief because you didn’t understand the underlying circumstances. You may (or may not) be projecting upon those who look like those who bullied you in the past.

No matter how you slice it, you will be safe by remaining calm, in your center, watching with the powerful laser of unclouded discernment.

In the face of anger, remain centered and your accuser will soon be rendered helpless.

Hold fast to your composure. Make no immediate defense and watch their anger backfire as they try to make you angrier than they are becoming.

Through many trials, slowly but surely you’ll become a better person rather than the old, bitter one. The guilt of falling to judgment results in a separation from God’s love, and His judgment on your judgment.

Anger clouds the lens of conscious discerning, depriving the offender of love’s mirror by which they may see the error of their ways and experience correction. Playing God, you become part of the problem and damn yourself into confusion and doubt.

Even more deadly than passing judgment is the inevitable agony of now having to forgive. Oh! The bliss of kissing and making up with the repentant sinner. We look forward to the renewed hoping that life will again be as sweet as it once was.

But your clouded perception blinds you to a brand new horror about to hatch. Just as angry judgment condemns, so does the forgiveness which comes out of guilt. It condones and makes everything worse. The political equivalent to all of this is the false compassion of socialism.

"Drop resentment and experience the effortless power of the righteous watcher"

Cruel judgments create problems that require a cure. False compassion causes families and nations to crumble into anarchy and dictatorships.

The art of creating problems and then solving them in a wrong way leads down to all the personal and political hells on earth. Throughout history, the cures of liberal compassion are worse than the disease. This is the reason behind the creation of the welfare criminal class.

The arrogance of bureaucratics condones and thereby licenses the very behavior it caused. Friends and families feud, while nations go to war.

Divine forgiveness alone has the power to absolve you and others from the sins of pride. Sitting in judgment of one another compounds our mutual agonies, one as predator and the other as prey.

You might avoid the agony of forgiving by avoiding relationships altogether, remaining a bitter recluse. Stay mad and you will never have a life, because no one will live with you.

In your silent agony and frustration, perhaps you will turn your anger toward God and judge him for all that has gone wrong in your life. At that point anger turns inward, you become depressed and suicidal.

It is so much easier not to pass judgment in the first place. Then you will not find yourself in the predicament of having to forgive in the second place.

You came into the world with the precious gift of discernment. If you still know what that is, don’t lose it. It takes the form of a patient, wait-and-see poise. When resentment rises up and mingles with discernment, only then does it become judgment.

Two conflicts will then exist, one with your conscience and the other with people upon whom you have passed judgment.

Discern these words — drop resentment and experience the effortless power of the righteous watcher. Once again the Light will shine forth from within you as a lamp unto your feet. The Light will show the way with absolute clarity. You will have a surety you’ll come to know as faith.