There are basics of life. There are fundamentals of living. I am not speaking of food, drink, and shelter. I am talking about freedom.

Everything I teach you is to give you freedom. I say to let go of old worn-out thinking and beliefs. That is to give you freedom. I say to stop judging. Judging is drawing an inviolable conclusion. A conclusion keeps other thoughts out. Judgment is a great freedom-stopper. You may conceivably know what is right for you, but you do not know for someone else, so your judgments are false.

I say to forgive. Forgiveness is a great freedom-giver. Forgiveness is the same as letting go of old ways of thinking.

Forgiveness is putting a star on a relationship. Forgiveness is compassionate understanding. Forgiveness is seeing things as they are.

And those of you who expound freedom of thought may be just as much caught in your singular thought as those you expound against. You abhor that people think in a narrow exculpatory vein, and yet that is what you do. You only see one way of looking at certain things as much as they do. Your thought is just as vehement, only you draw a different line in the sand from the line those you rail against draw.

Letting go of judgment is another way of holding onto freedom, only freedom cannot be held on to. It is like fire. You can raise it high, but you cannot carry its flame in your hand. Judgment is not yours to hold.

Judgment is like taking the whole pie and calling it yours when you can only eat one piece.

Freedom is not dispensed. It is not something you bestow on another. It is not yours to give. It is yours to allow to be there. Yes, you must even give freedom to others to think differently from you. You are not the decider of thoughts. You are not the wisdom-giver. But you are a wisdom-allower. You are an appreciator of energy that is greater than thought.

We have talked how wisdom is a form of love. It is a kindness. Wisdom comes from a great grasp of love. I am teaching you to love. Love is not vehement. Love has no platform. Love loves. Love is understanding. It is encompassing. It does not bind.

Before you can give up all your judgments, you have to notice them. Changing one judgment to another is not the same as giving up judgment. Judging differently is still judging. Judging comes from conclusion, and judging also makes predictions. It makes foregone conclusions.

Watch out for judgment, that precursor to forgiveness. If you did not judge, you would have nothing to forgive. So forgive yourself for judging. You didn't know better. You thought it was the right thing to do.

And so think all those who see differently from you.

Judgment closes hearts, yours and the others'. It takes sides. Bias is limiting. You don't see Me taking sides. You see Me giving love. That doesn't mean I don't have a point of view. I do. I know how I like things. But I see beyond My point of view to something greater than any point of view. Love does not take sides. It does not marshal itself. It doesn't have to. Love, which is the most powerful energy in the world, does not need reinforcement. Conditions are reinforcement.

Righteousness is not always right. Righteousness is not always love. To be an imposer of righteousness certainly is not love. It is a control.

Let go of all the control you have been holding. Desire to control others' thoughts is control. Ideas of control hamper freedom. Let freedom ring. Let hearts sing. Hearts will come together of their own accord. The only way hearts come together is through their own accord.