Making For Oneness

To be able to use what we call viveka, discrimination, to learn how, in every moment of our lives, in every one of our actions, to discriminate between right and wrong and true and false, we shall have to know the test of truth, which is purity, oneness. Everything that makes for oneness is truth. Love is truth, because it makes for oneness; but ill-will is false, because ill-will in any form makes for multiplicity. It is ill-will that separates man from man; therefore it is wrong and false. It is a disintegrating power; it separates and destroys. Love unites; love makes for that oneness. For love is Existence, God Himself, and all we see is the manifestation of that One Love, more or less expressed. The differences are only of degree; it is the manifestation of that One Love throughout. Therefore, in all our actions, we have to judge whether or not our act is making for oneness. If it isn’t, we have to give it up, but if it is, we may be sure it is good. So with our thoughts; we have to decide whether or not they make for oneness, binding soul to soul and thus generating a great force. If they do this we will take them up, and if not, we will throw them off as false and harmful to our spiritual growth.

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