Routine is good. Breaking from routine is also good. Steadfastness is good, and flexibility is good. All is good.

When you can see that all is well, you will have a greater view of life. Nothing will have to be one way and not another. You will relax.

What we are talking about is not judging. This concept of not judging is touted a lot and applied infrequently.

When you get out of judging, your mind will not be so strict. A whole load will be taken off your mind. You will take years off your life. It will be like you are taking off tight shoes and breathing a sigh of relief. Then you will know freedom. Your mind will know freedom.

Someone reading this will think, if not say: "God, are You saying we shouldn’t have standards? Are You saying that anything goes?"

I would say across the board that you are to find love in your heart and view the world from the window of love. I would tell you to be very cautious about having standards that you insist others meet. I also recommend caution for yourself when you set standards too high on yourself. If you are often finding fault with yourself, you may well be setting standards that are too high for you to live up to. Unless you have a spring in your step, you very likely are too hard on yourself.

My darlings, you are not to browbeat yourself any more than you are to browbeat others.

I would caution you against making absolute statements in your mind. There can be peace in everything. There can also be chaos in anything. Neatness is not always peaceful, nor is messiness. If you must have a standard, let your standard be peace, and let your standard be joy.

The only absolute that I would want you to uphold is love. Love is the one standard to go by.

I have seen parents talking sharply to their children in public. The parents may think they are teaching their child to behave, and that they teach in the name of love, and yet where is the love? It would seem they are teaching their child to be unhappy. They are giving themselves permission to be cross and bossy.

The world is not always constant, nor must you perceive or state your opinions as constant. Since when are opinions fact? Since when is certitude truth?

Be cautious about saying one thing is allowed and another is not. Be careful about what you preach, even when what you preach is the same as what you practice. You may exact too great a price for yourself and for others.

To come from a standard of love does not mean to be sentimental. A basis of love does not make you a sap. Do you think I am a sap? Do I not come from love? I don’t come from a standard of love. I simply come from love, and that is what I ask of you.

And if you slip and come from less than the arena of love, brush yourself off and start from the beginning again. Love rules. Love, not strictness and not mushiness. Wise love, not silly love. True love, not false love. Gracious love. Love given with grace, not in spite of what occurs, but because you are love. You are not a fool to love. You are not a patsy. You are not a ne’er-do-well to love. We are talking about honest love, truthful love that gives of itself because you, the giver of it, stand in love.