Open Your Understanding by Opening Your Eyes
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“What the mind sees is not this solid picture that is communicated to the brain, but what your awareness has conditioned you to see. In other words, seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not at they are, but as you are.”
Those are some profound words by Eric Butterworth. They are words that changed my life dramatically when I invested in the deep wisdom of them. The more we look the more we see that everything we experience is simply a veil. There is some animating force back of it all. We are exactly the same as that animating force — and we are NOT our bodies, we are the energy and activation behind our bodies. We are NOT our experiences, we are the driving force behind our circumstances.
Why this is important is because it demonstrates a fundamental (yet often challenging to grasp) truth that we are completely in control of our experience. It’s easy to get lost in the idea that we are not in control.
Can you deepen into that belief?
What comes up for you that challenges that idea?
Are you able to look through that challenging thought to a more mystical understanding of the truth?
When we know we are in complete control of our experience, because we are in the process of evolving through the experience at all times (there is never a time when we are not in the process) then life can get better. It gets better because we make a deeply rooted decision to allow it to be better.
There is a story about how I came into being in this philosophy that is telling. I first found myself in a spiritual center that was also a theatre. I was involved in a production at that theatre and during the run of the show I was invited to go to a Sunday Celebration to meet someone as a potential love connection.
I resisted because I was not in the frame of mind that supported the idea of being involved in a spiritual community. I was VERY resistant.
After a while, I thought, “well, one Sunday isn’t going to kill me.” So I went.
I did find a love connection — me.
I had to make the shift in mind to be able to be open to it.
I had to deepen my understanding.
I had to open my eyes.
My life has become more expansive and joyful because I allowed myself to be open to the fundamental Truth of being: I AM.