Gary Douglas: Judgment Kills Possibility And Growth

In this talk, Gary Douglas explores how judgment limits possibilities and constrains our ability to choose freely. He differentiates between love and loving, emphasizing that true loving involves embracing constant possibilities without judgment. Through personal stories and experiences with nature and animals, Douglas highlights the importance of communion with all things and living consciously. He urges us to let go of judgments and preconceived conclusions to unlock a life filled with potential and growth.

Transcript

You have a discerning factor during judgment because during judgment you have to come to conclusions and if you have to come to conclusion you don't have a sense of lightness and possibility which is where love being should go.

But love and loving are two different things.

Loving is where you're always looking at a question of possibility.

Love is where you've completed your question and completed your possibility.

So you are done.

Don't be complete.

Be in the living,

The loving,

The laughing,

And the joy.

So loving is about being in the moment and being more present.

Experiencing what is present.

You know it's like if you're loving with people then you don't have any judgment.

You can't judge somebody and love them.

When did you first realize that judgment was the thing that was impeding consciousness?

About 30 years ago and you know I was told,

I was channeling at the time,

And I was told you know it's like judgment is the killer.

I went what?

I went how can judgment be a killer?

And then I started looking at it and I went wait a minute.

Judgment is always the end of possibility.

Judging is the way in which we diminish our own capacity to choose.

And I also was given the information that you know we have a choice.

We can project and expect of others,

Which is a judgment,

Or we can allow them to do and be who they are.

And if you project and expect of others then you must,

When they fail to meet your criterion of projection and expectations,

To separate,

Judge,

And reject you.

That creates a huge gap in our level of possibility.

And it's like I look at the world and I see that you know the plants and the animals don't do that.

Why do we?

Yeah,

They don't do that.

They don't judge.

Animals will go okay you want to ride?

Okay no I don't want to give you a ride.

Okay fine then I won't get on you today.

You know I always ask my horses will you take care of me?

If they say yes I'll get on them.

If they say no I won't.

I have a stallion that I ride who's just he's snow white.

He's beautiful and I love him to death.

And it's like I paid so much money to get him here to the United States.

It's stupid money.

He wasn't worth that much on the open market but he was worth that much to me.

And I ride him and I was riding him a few months ago and I had been having some physical problems and so I'm riding on my way back to the barn and it's like and I get to the top of this hill and I'm about 12 minutes from the barn and it's like and he stops.

He says and he looks at me and he goes get off.

I've never done this before.

Never talk to me that way ever.

Get off.

I go no no we're only 12 minutes.

Fine I'll be fine.

I'll be fine.

Get off.

No and I kicked him.

Now this horse is so sensitive that if you would kick him he would come out from under you.

He didn't move a muscle.

He didn't move a muscle.

He said get off.

So I called up somebody to come and help me off because I had a hard time getting on and I had a harder time getting off in those days.

And as I got off I fell to the ground and I realized he was right.

I didn't have the strength to get off.

I didn't have the strength to do what was right and he knew.

So I rode in a cart and led him back to the stables and I went thank you my friend.

You're a gift.

It's like and I realized that all things are a gift.

I mean I was sitting here.

We had a hurricane come through a few weeks ago and it's like I'm sitting in my house.

I'm going okay are we going to be all right.

I got yes.

Okay good.

So I didn't do anything and then I watched as the trees were like whipped around and I watched one tree split and part of it fall off.

I watched another tree that was 400 feet tall fall over.

I saw another one that was 300 feet tall.

It fell over and these big beautiful old trees that I would have done anything to have taken care of fell over.

But I was not in my house damaged hurt or suffered anything.

I went wow the world is a unique place if we live with it not on it.

Yeah that essence of living in alignment is really profound.

It's interesting because you mentioned all things are a gift and you also mentioned that all things are consciousness.

So is consciousness a medium or like a substrate of how we experience life or is it a state of being or something else in time.

It's a state of being.

It's like when you're truly being conscious what happens is you live more in the question and you're in the communion with all things and you don't have the problems like other people have.

You know it's like I personally am not fond of snakes and in Texas we got lots.

I never see them.

They never show up at my house.

And do you think it's um are you alluding to the law of vibration and resonance and attraction there?

No.

How come you're not attracting any snakes?

Because I tell them please don't come near me I'll have to kill you.

You know with with spiders I tell them get out of my house you got three days and if you're not gone I will kill you and they go.

I communicate with all things.

Tell me way more about that.

Well if you recognize that all things are conscious then all things have a an ability to hear to see and to speak.

So it's like with I like like antiques.

I like things that are truly old and beautiful and so I have lots of antiques but they all find me.

I don't go out looking for them.

They just you know show up on my doorstep almost.

It's like somebody will call me and say I have this thing that I want to sell.

Have you any interest?

I go yes no yes and I'll buy it.

And usually more often than not it's a good price which I think is very funny.

The things themselves tell the people what to charge to get me to own me.

And my point of view is we don't we don't actually own anything.

Everything owns us.

You know it's like do you get up and polish your furniture or does it get up and polish you?

That is so interesting.

Yeah my my furniture doesn't polish me but I polish it.

So it's like from my point of view is do I own it or does it own me?

It owns me.

It sends me to work to pay for its upkeep.

It pays you know it's like I have to go to work to take care of its beauty so it's perfect.

I have to you know it's like I have to do all the work in order for it to have the life it wants.

These things find me and they just go yeah I'm beautiful.

Here I am.

Look at me.

I have the most unusual house of any house I've ever been in.

I have you know lion skin rugs.

Did I kill any of them?

No I couldn't kill a lion.

That would just be devastating to me.

But when somebody else has done it it's like I don't see throwing it away.

Like one of the things they did in New York Hillary Clinton you know got this thing going to take care of you know get rid of all the ivory so that people wouldn't buy it.

And I went that's just crazy.

And there were one pair of tusks they were in the stuff that was given to them.

It was 25 foot long.

Will there ever be another elephant with 25 foot tusks on this planet?

Probably not because we don't let them grow that old.

We don't take care of them you know.

And so it's like but they took those 25 foot tusks and they ground them into dust and put them in a garden.

And to me it's like that's a sadness not a rightness.

And but people are really determined that they're going to do things right and that's going to change things.

No what's going to change things is people becoming aware that these elephants are who they are.

I went to Africa to do a class and we went to this rhino orphanage where they took in baby rhinos that had been uh their mothers had been killed for their horns.

So at any rate they had all these you know these little orphans and they kept putting them in enclosures that they could keep them safe quote unquote.

And all the babies were dying.

I said what if you let them outside all day instead of trying to put them inside?

Well that that wouldn't be safe.

I went that's just crazy.

And I tried to suggest to them they treat the animal like it's an animal instead of treating the thing like it's something they need to protect.

They didn't want to hear that.

But from my perspective that's more conscious than us trying to determine what we that we know what is right when I don't think we do.

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