John 8:16 Meaning Even If I Do Judge

When the awakened mind does look upon a brother, what it sees is true, because it is not seeing by itself. It looks together with the love that is its source, and love can find nothing to condemn. This is the only judgment that never errs: the recognition of innocence that comes when the mind sees with its Creator rather than against him.

The fearful mind believes it stands alone and must defend itself, and from that loneliness every false verdict is born. But a mind joined with its source is never truly alone, and what it sees through that union is simply the truth, for love and the mind that remembers love look upon everything as one and find it blameless.

The Father: the source of love from which the mind was never separated, the presence it sees with rather than alone

When the ego judges, it judges alone, out of its sense of being separate, and so it distorts and condemns and defends. Such judgment can never be true, because it exists to protect a phantom self that is afraid for its survival.

But there is a seeing that is not alone. When you look from stillness, from the presence that is one with its source, you are no longer the isolated 'me' reacting against the world. Something deeper looks through you, and it sees clearly because it wants nothing and defends nothing. That is what makes such seeing true: it is not distorted by the fears and cravings of a separate self.