This term comes up repeatedly in religious and spiritual circles, both written and spoken. From a religious standpoint, we can boil it down to alignment with God. In philosophical terms, highest good means the principle of goodness in which all moral values are included. Supreme good might describe it. Some might say happiness is the highest good in the sense that a happy person has cultivated virtues in accordance with the aim of their soul.
If you look around the world, you will see many variations of how people define highest good. This indicates its meaning is personal and subjective. Dr. William Baldwin wrote that a prayer asking for the highest good was a call to wayward spirits and an invitation for their co-presence through bonding energy. Reading this sent shivers down my spine (tee hee). When your teacher points this out, it’s challenging to remove yourself from a bias. His message was that highest good for one individual might differ from our perspective. The bigger picture on it is how it relates to societies and cultures around the world.
Case in point: I went for a bicycle ride one morning after hearing a distinct whisper against the activity. Within fifteen minutes, I was sprawled out on Riverside Drive with two broken ribs, torn sternum cartilage, and a helmet shattered into three pieces that saved my life. After a long recovery, I retraced my bike ride on the one-year anniversary. Standing on a bridge over the river at sunset, I heard a whisper that I needed the experience. As I balked at that message, the whisper continued by letting me know spirit saw me as closed to receiving. This was true, so the horrible accident and recovery were in my highest good? Let’s get a whisper on this one:
Use of the term highest good is taking a deep dive into the mystery. With great discernment from an elevated perspective to gain understanding, your highest good is subjective to your goals and life purpose. In addition, there is a blind spot to seeing the truth around what is in your highest good. The ego mind has its own perspective of what is in the highest good.
The Universe is a kind and fair judge. But forced learning can feel unfair and burdensome, even from a loving parent who wants their child to grow and thrive. The larger the life purpose, the more lessons one might expect. Rapid growth is not magic. It is a product of the conditions under which a person agrees to live. Negative patterns will almost always repeat unless spiritual leverage is used to break those energies, allowing more freedom to live a happy life.
Highest good can help set a vibration that matches divine love, as long as you don’t lose sight of the goal to cultivate virtues. Strength of spirit is found in accepting people and things as they are, with a willingness to forgive. Establishing healthy boundaries with yourself and others can be challenging, but leads to relationships based on the common goal of wellness. Love expands the aura and fills your energy with light. These virtues build a strong energy that surrounds you, offering stability, growth, and a better way of living.
Your highest good is best determined when the path you choose is not influenced by an unhealthy attachment to feelings, opinions, beliefs, or assumptions. Cultivate the virtues that lead to freedom from those attachments and welcome the vibration of happiness.
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
“Free will is our destiny, but so is divine intervention. How this will define our life journey is up to us. We either make wise choices for our highest good, or the Divine will make it for us.”
Anthon St. Maarten
