Around and within us reside invisible and powerful laws that rule over reality in all its infinite forms. These forces of instant righteousness, or perfect balance, are always at work. Nothing escapes their imperceptible presence; everything yields to the weight of their judgment.

We've all heard the phrase, "What goes around comes around." This principle of karma, the idea that what we give, we will receive in return, is a mathematical law whose root runs through the heart of reality. Our present problem is that we don't understand this principle in operation because we can't always see its unfailing fruition with our physical eyes. But be assured, just as good is always rewarded in kind, anyone who acts unjustly in life instantaneously ensures that he or she will be corrected by the celestial laws that govern all such trespasses.

It doesn't matter one bit if you or I don't see this law enacted to our satisfaction. The fact remains: an invisible justice system already exists. This understanding is a gift of great freedom known only by the true few. And we can count ourselves among these liberated ones if we are willing to learn what we must.

As we awaken to realize that these same perfect principles are already in place to empower us, this same understanding puts us in relationship with a whole new order of freedom. Such freedom is not a creation of ours. It is not something attained by making life line up with our wishes; it is a system already in place, needing only our awareness of its abiding reality to realize its power as our own.

Here is just one small example of how these perfect laws -- in one even motion -- sentence those who trespass, while liberating those who realize them: all pretense punishes the pretender. Here is proof of this truth. The smallest act of cunning on our part always starts with secret self-conflict.

Other truths that are the foundation of justice are expressed all around us if we know where to look within ourselves. For example, any embraced hatred festers the heart of the one holding this sickness. Here's another principle governed by these same laws, a principle that allows us to pity those who blindly accumulate power or possessions at the cost of a greater good: the seed of any greed always lies within some self-compromising fear, so that nothing can be won by its actions that doesn't frighten us further.

These next truths are also part of this same system of justice. It is our growing insight into these incorruptible laws that shows us the wisdom in the timeless idea of "letting go and letting God."

The love of God transforms all things bitter into something better.

Self-correction is instant self-elevation.

Truths like these prove the existence of a great and universal system of divine reconciliation. And if we look deeper still into the heart of our new discoveries, we will find within them the promise of this welcome relief: We can let go of all forms of lashing out at whoever or whatever may have caused us pain for we have seen that our negativity toward them is the same as our own punishment.

To act from this higher self-awareness not only helps free us from the initial pain born of a negative reaction, but it also keeps us from wrongly investing ourselves in trying to correct what is already in the throes of being corrected! And once we stop locking ourselves up with resistance in unwanted moments... to wasted judgments and their attendant, never-ending worries... we find that not only are we free, but that there's no power in the universe capable of holding us captive again.