“We don’t see things as they are,
we see things as we are.”
- Anais Nin
Spirituality is seeing through the lens of the One Divine Life living within us. This one great life does not end, it merely changes.
Our life is not about us, it is about love, it is about God. When we don’t see through love, when we experience only the insecurity and fragility of our ego-driven self, we become restless, insecure, untrusting, hopeless, and even hateful. In contemplation, however, we move to a different space where we see beyond the illusion of separateness.
The older we get, the more we feel betrayed, hurt, and most of us learn to put up many barriers and resistances to love without even knowing it. This is why the healing work of spiritual practices is so necessary.
Most of Jesus’ ministry was about healing that had to do with blindness – chosen blindness (John 9:41), the gradual healing of blindness (Mark 8:22-26), and the distorted worldviews that come from chosen blindness (Luke 6:39-42).
The way to healing comes from our humble surrender to truth, to life, to God. From then, we realize that we were our worst enemy. We can learn how to see and love things as they are, and no longer as our blindness wants them to be.
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free.”
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