Justice

                     Justice

"There is a popular word in the English language, which you hear
about constantly. Maybe you use it in your own conversations,
and this word is much used and little understood. We’re going to
understand it in a profitable way inwardly tonight. It’s the
word _justice_.

Now society has its own definitions of the term justice, unfor-
tunately, all of them are distortions of reality, all shallow,
all misleading and all self-serving. Forget from now on all
the definitions of justice you have picked up because if you
dropped them you’ll be able to think more clearly because
you’ll have the real meaning behind the word.

To the average human being, justice is done if he gets his way.
If he gets what he wants, that’s justice, if he doesn’t get it,
that’s injustice. And he goes around complaining what an unjust
world this is.

There is only one true definition of justice. The true definition
of justice is simply this, it is justice when goodness is rewarded
and badness is punished. That’s the spiritual definition.

If you are good, you will be rewarded, if you are bad, you will be
punished. There’s no way really to escape divine justice, it’s a
fixed law, it’s here, it pays no attention to human distortions
and manglings of the word. You always get justice from the
spiritual viewpoint, there is no way to escape it."

    from a talk given 11/11/1988
  Vernon Howard's Higher World