The common thing we all do is to decide what the value of something or someone is, or what is right or wrong, and then, according to the mentally structured rules we decide upon, we do what we think is best or what is desired. This is the process mankind utilizes, quite arbitrarily, to deduce what is so. Because we have deemed something to be so, we believe that it actually is as we have decided (it is not).

We may or may not see what is so for what it is. Nevertheless it still is what it is. There is no arbitrariness and no decision-making involved in determining what is so; there is merely seeing it for what it is with clear vision. The very reason we can trust in that which is revealed as so is the fact that it is simple and does not change and, therefore, does not require a complex mental structure to account for such changes. This is why love, the revelation of the light, arising directly from Peace, gives the vision of that which is only Peace and wholly peaceful. True judgment is virtually the same as full understanding, the result of paying attention to love-light.

It is good to note here that the notion of reward and punishment as judgment or as the result of judgment falls into the meaning that utilizes mankind's arbitrary decision-making. One may not know of any way to live and survive without making decisions. However, it is clear that one may pay attention to the light until its revelation is clear, full and complete within. When all is known as it truly is, wholly perfect and peaceful, there is no longer any need to decide anything. In fact, the very idea of need disappears in the constancy of Peace. All is judged already in the oneness of the law of love, shining within.

This is actually quite vital. The biggest saboteur of peacefulness within is the fear involved in decision-making. This is because, deep inside, one instinctively knows that, at their present level of (lack of) understanding, they do not truly know what is so.

True understanding reveals that there is no decision-making needed, nothing between which one might decide, nothing to fix and no need for worry. With deciding set aside altogether, peace is at the door.

Thinking as we know it, is continually involved in deciding which thoughts to entertain and what things we can construct in our minds to put into the emotional mill that produces behavior and seemingly so much more.

Thinking and deciding seem to be required in order to survive, and I do not suggest people try to stop these. Rather, it is enough to simply understand that they are ultimately unnecessary. Understanding in its fullness as knowledge makes thinking and decision-making unnecessary, they being superseded by the light of knowing that judges rightly what is so by the constancy that is its reality.

It is not necessary to cease from our old ways as a matter of thinking it all out and deducing that we must decide to change things. Instead, what is truly beneficial is to simply pay attention to the light and let that have its effect. And what then, is the course of things without thinking and deciding? By placing the attention upon the light, the inevitable course of things, without necessity of thought or decision, is love, illuminating itself in the minds of all as the Peace from which it arises.