The Place of No Drama, No Story, And No Judgment

Heaven on Earth

We’ve all read a book, watched a movie, or watched a TV show in which the characters rush to judgment about a person or situation. As outside observers, we can see their mistakes.

This creates great drama in stories. We remain riveted to the action, wanting someone to see the truth, step outside of their preconceived ideas, stop judging, and start listening.

We want the characters to communicate completely. We want them to begin, stay in trust, and fully understand what is really happening.

In many stories, an innocent person gets hurt because someone rushed to judgment.

Sometimes, the story is so well written that it becomes almost real, and I want to fix it. But then I remembered that it’s only a story.

Imagine how the Divine would feel if It were watching our human story.

How often would Love want to stop us from rushing to judgment? How often would Mind wish we would be more understanding, communicate more clearly, and listen more deeply?

Rushing to judgment produces false condemnation and false praise. We don’t clearly see ourselves and others, resulting in unwanted outcomes.

Rushing to judgment results from beginning with false assumptions and perceptions.

It begins with the story of humanness, family beliefs, cultural prejudices, and peer perceptions.

With all these ingredients, we can create fabulous drama for our lives. It gets even better when we gather like-minded people to discuss beliefs, prejudices, and perceptions as if they were facts.

Then, we head out into the world to support and promote those beliefs, prejudices, and perceptions and either punish or allow punishment for those who don’t share our particular story or self-perception.

The story gathers momentum and power.

It becomes something to do, fix, spend time on, and put meaning into so that life feels as if it has a purpose.

When we say to ourselves, “I am a good person, and bad things happen to me anyway,” haven’t we set up the screenplay and written the script for this action to occur?

Sometimes, our stories are love stories, family-friendly, and charming—a delightful respite from the drama.

However, no matter what the story is, we can’t forget that it is human-based, a worldview-lack story, which is always a type of prison that produces a lifestyle that matches our dedication to holding on to it.

Unless we begin with the right premise, a drama of one kind or another will continue unchecked.

What’s the right premise?

Can’t we all agree that the divine is Love?

It doesn’t matter what we call it or what traditions we attach to the way we celebrate it—don't we all begin with the premise that there is only One Cause and One Creator, and it is Love?

There is no judgment within that perfect, infinite, unconditional, underived Love because Love only knows Love.

There is no rush to judgment because there is no judgment to make, only awareness of the omnipresence of the infinite good.

If we viewed all apparently human situations as they are—a set of beliefs, prejudices, misunderstandings, and perceptions—and rose above them, we might pause long enough to hear the Truth.

In that listening place, we could begin dissolving what appears as a material person, place, and thing and see and experience the presence of the Divine instead.

All that separates us from this state of no story is a misunderstanding, and when that misunderstanding dissolves, what stands revealed is Love experienced as practical shifts in our circumstances.

With the premise of omnipresent Love, we would no longer rush to judgment in either condemnation or praise of others or ourselves.

Instead, we would stand and act with kindness, understanding, and patience because these are the qualities of the no-story and no-drama that God knows and is always, and in all ways, expressing.

By putting aside reactions and rushing to judgment, acts and thoughts of kindness become our watchword and guide.

This place of no drama, story, or judgment will feel like heaven on earth.