Okay me, listen up:
Don’t be good, be whole.
Your true nature is what you are prior to any thought you would ever have about anything. What you really are exists prior to anything you can think about, like a “good” or “bad.”
So to attempt to be good is to separate from your true nature…and will always bring about bad, because eternal wholeness cannot be divided.
Anything you attempt to carve off of the whole will spring into existence with its opposite.
When you believe a thought, you separate the wholeness of existence into a “world” where there are separate things. It is the only way to have a human experience. In order to relate to a world, you have to mentally limit the wholeness of what is, separate it into things and situations and concepts, and then pick and choose what to notice and how to react. And because what is is being limited and parsed, there will always be…
limited information
shortsightedness
kidding oneself
hypocrisy
self-centeredness
forgetfulness
overzealousness
self-importance
self-righteousness
feeling like the victim
being a tyrant
hatred
Recognize that these are all the natural result of an innocent belief in separation.
Understand that if you are seeing the world separated, that you are doing exactly what is necessary to experience life as a human being. It is your membership card to the human community, evidence of your belonging, not a reason for your exclusion. Recognize that everyone else’s fumbling with the illusion of separation is the same as your own, just expressed from their particular location in the cosmic swirl of the universe (which is as imaginary a location as yours).
Recognizing this frees you to let go of imaginary things like “good” and “bad” and to love what is. It allows you to relax into the perfect thing that you really are, prior to anything you’re thinking and believing. And it sees others for what they are and frees them to do the same.
If you’re going to walk around in a “world,” bring with you the recognition that your world is imagined. Walk around in love with your creation, with your whole imaginary self, in love with your whole imaginary world and in love with every whole imaginary person in it.
See, and serve, all of it with the deepest love.
Some may even see that as good.