Your Eyes are Divine

There is a great gift you have in your power to give everyone. This gift lies in the way you look at them. The word look is used here to include all of your senses, both outer and inner. It covers all the ways in which you regard, contemplate and consider another being.

When you look at another you can give them a great gift by seeing the divine in them.

Sometimes this is so easy, as when you look at a sleeping baby, perhaps. At other times it may place great demands upon your capacity to release judgement. But it is always possible, at least a little.

Does this, then, mean that I am asking you to condone behaviour that you find brutal or heartless? Does it mean that I suggest you ignore behaviour you find insufficient or thoughtless, or perhaps even to deceive yourself about it, to look at the world through relentlessly pink spectacles?

No, what I am suggesting is that you develop your capacity for seeing with the divine essence of your own being; to see as the All That Is sees you. The All That Is is all-seeing and so knows all the love and wisdom that is yours, and all of your foibles and reluctances too. To see with your divine eyes is to see more of all you look at.

When you do this you resonate with all that is divine within that which you focus upon. It becomes easier for that being to find his or her divinity, and to allow that to come to the fore.

You are living in a time when many old ideas are running out of steam. They don’t work in the way they once did. Those who hold such ideas can find themselves feeling lost, confused or threatened. You can help them to find new ideas that are more aligned with the Divine Plan by seeing the divine in them.

As you practise seeing the divine in others you are also giving yourself a great gift too. You are becoming your divine self through this simple practice.

Playbox: Opening Your Eyes

Consider someone who has been in the news recently, perhaps someone towards whom you have had some critical thoughts.

See if you can contemplate this person without having any thoughts about her or him, even if only for a few moments.

Imagine him or her as a new-born baby with their whole life ahead.

Send good wishes to this person at the start of their life, wishing their potential to be fulfilled in the highest way possible.

Now see this person in the present fulfilling that potential (even though what you are imagining may seem very different from what you know of this person).