SINCE the word "sensitive" is closely related to the word "sense," it too can be considered as having two aspects, the false or corporeal sensitiveness and the true or spiritual sensitiveness.
An illustration of these two kinds of sensitiveness is given in the Gospel of Luke, where he tells of the band of men who came to arrest Jesus. In cutting off the right ear of the high priest's servant, Peter showed a sensitiveness to error which believed that error is true and that it is personal. Jesus exercised the spiritual sense of sensitiveness when he instantly healed the servant. Jesus was sensitive to the reality of good, and this naturally resulted in healing.
Let us ask ourselves: "Do we, like Peter, respond to evil? Do we believe, as did he, that man is a mortal personality capable of evil? Or are we awake to our true selfhood and our brother's true selfhood as the expression of God, Soul?" Peter's impulsiveness was the result of his allowing his thinking to be impelled by evil and physically fighting it as if it were real. Jesus' thought was based on Love as the only power, presence, intelligence, and action. He handled and destroyed error by realizing God's allness and evil's nothingness. He knew that Truth does not fight with error as another power. Truth is, and this fact is a self-enforcing law which nothingizes error.
