Text: Paths and Goals Q: Okay. I had a real interesting conversation with a couple friends of mine on this very subject. I was sharing my idea ofŠ B: May I interrupt you for one moment? Q: Sure. B: Thank you. Now, this will be a very good synchronous example of simultaneous experience and expression of and within the different beings in your civilization, many of which are very close around you, that you, if you are willing to share as you have done, can allow others to share -- and you can observe the overall pattern. It is only because your lines of communication are limited by your judgment that you have not allowed yourself to recognize that if you simply share who you are, if there is anything that you do in fact need, it will automatically be provided by someone else who is also willing to share. Please continue. Q: Okay. I don't know if this is going to fulfill what you just said, butŠ B: Oh, judgment! Judgment! Q: So this person wasŠ we had gone into the idea of the best choice -- being the best. And I was presenting the idea that there is no best, that you're always choosing the right path and you can't pick a wrong path. And this guy said: "Well let me give you an example. My wife and I were driving along, and we wanted to go home, and she said, well let's take this way home." And so he said, "okay." And they wound up on top of a mountain. B: Yes. Q: And he said, "Now, you tell me that was not theŠ our goal was to go home, and that was not the best way to go home, because it didn't get us home." And so I presented the idea that, "Well, you got something out of that interaction, whatever it was," and he said, "Well then, what you're saying is you can gain things from it - - but you can't prove to me that it had validity in terms of learning something about our life in an overall view. And it did not get us home." B: So? Q: So I had nothing to say to that. B: Understand that simply what is being done is what you call in your civilization, "mixing apples and oranges." Q: Well... that's what he was accusing me of. B: No. Other way around. In your terminology -- allow me to use your terminology for a moment; all right, I will use the term "best" for now -- that path may not have been the best way to achieve what he had in mind, but that is not the point. What is being done by that individual is a judgment and a comparison that that path should have been connected to his goal. The simple living in the moment recognition would have been, "This path is what this path is." It may not have anything to do with getting home, but that is why it is not connected to that idea; it is its own idea. Being on that path is simply being on that path. The idea of making a connection that "this path is not the best path to get home" really has nothing to do with it, and is beside the point. The idea is, that for them there are many paths, so to speak, to have gotten home. That simply was not one of them, and because it is not one of them, it has no business being compared to one of them. For it is its own path. And if that individual was willing to live in the moment instead of in the future -- wanting to get home and only seeing validity if the path achieved that for him -- if he would have preferred to live in the moment, then the path, for what it was, could have served him. But it was not allowed to serve for what it was, but only was compared for what it was not. Q: Oh, I see. B: You follow me? Q: Yes. B: That is the idea of living in the moment. Then you will not make a judgment. If you simply find yourself on a path, you will accept the path for what it is. And then you will allow yourself to learn the lesson of that idea. You follow me? Q: Instead of judging it against what you thought you may or may not have wanted. B: Yes. Simply: it is not best or worst; it is simply different. It may not be the path to that individual's house, but -- so what? That is not the point. Now, the idea is not to insist that it is the path to his house, or a bad path to his house. It simply has nothing to do with the concept of a path to his house, in an overall direct sense. You follow me? Q: Mhmm. B: Will that have answered your question? Q: Yes. I would like very much to remember all this -- I will remember all this. Thank you. B: It simply comes down to being in the moment. AUD: I would have asked him what he saw when be got to the top of the mountain. Q: Oh, that wouldn't have worked (-- --?) AUD: And maybe that was what he was to see. B: Now, you can understand that a way that path may be connected to the idea he was exploring is to discover that that path is not a way to his home. And therefore he will not take it again. And in that sense it is still on the path toward his house. Q: Because he knows that that's notŠ B: Yes. And therefore in that sense it is connected to the original idea, by polarity. So it is still connected in that way. But aside from that, it is a completely separate idea. And there is no need to judge that it is a worse path than any other. It simply needs to be appreciated for the path that it is. You follow me? Q: Mhmm. Thank you. B: Thank you.

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