The belief in two powers is what traps us into
vacillating between the pairs of opposites,
harmony and discord, poverty and abundance,
life and death, sickness and health …

there is no good and there is no evil in any form …
this truth frees us and brings the peace that passes understanding.

The only devil is the knowledge of good and evil.

To be rid of the pairs of opposites,
we must stop the merry-go-round of the human mind,
and that actually is not as difficult or as impractical as it sounds.

I have been asked many times, “How do you stop thinking?”
And I have found one way.

The minute I can look at any person or condition
and know that it is neither good nor evil,
my thought stops and my mind becomes quiet.

That is the end of it because then
there are no thoughts left for me to think about it.

I do not think good of it and I do not think evil of it.
All I know is that it is, and then I am back at the center of my being where all power is.

Our mind is restless only when we are thinking about things or persons either in terms of good or evil,
but the mind is at rest when we surrender all such concepts.

Joel Goldsmith
The Thunder of Silence