Journal for Day 36
LESSON 36
My holiness envelops everything I see.
“If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful. Your sight is related to His Holiness, not to your ego, and therefore not to your body.”
If my mind is very holy, then what I see is very holy. And since my mind is part of God’s Mind, my mind must be holy. So why is it that I do not see holiness when I look around. To the contrary, I see division, anger, frustration, jealousy, and all sorts of emotional reactions from those around me. That happens when I am looking from my ego mind through the body’s eyes.
I have been learning to see differently, though. Sometimes I do first see through the ego mind, but usually, I very quickly shift my sight to vision. I see the holiness before me. I see that these holy beings are confused and lost in their confusion, but no less holy for that. I know what it feels like to be confused and afraid, so I pray for them, which means I envelop them in my holiness. My holiness sees the holiness in them and knows it to be the truth.
This is not to be confused with the ego attempt at prayer and forgiveness. I am not seeing them as if they were less than me and then trying to raise them up. I am seeing that they are the same as me, and I am rejoicing in that we are both blessed with the grace of God. There is nothing that can change that in any way. I know this and will not be influenced by whatever story they are lost in at this moment.
This lesson is the practice I used to get to this holier perception that I now experience. It is not perfect yet and occasionally it takes me a little time to shift from ego mind/body sight to true vision. Sometimes, I jumpstart the process by praying that this one is open and receptive to his highest self. I see him at peace. And what I pray for another is my prayer for myself and generally, this does it for me, and my vision shifts.
At first, this felt like work because it required my full attention and it also required that I relinquish my judgments. Sometimes I didn’t want to do that. But as I continued the practice, it got easier and now it feels natural and when I don’t do it, I feel very uncomfortable. I am diligent in this exercise because I want to feel the joy of true vision all the time.
So what does this have to do with the rug and the wall and the pen and the body? For vision to be true it must be true for all forms of separation. It must be the undoing of separation. It must be an experience of union. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. God must, therefore, be in that pencil and in that rug and in this body I seem to inhabit. I cannot see anything apart from God and truly see it. When I see with vision, I don’t see just a pencil and just a rug or even just a body. I perceive holiness and wholeness. I perceive the union of all things, the place where all is one.
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