*SEE - PERCEPTION, BLIND
There are none so blind as those who will not see. (Prayer, p22)
Heaven lies all about us, but because we are lacking in spiritual perception, we are unable to recognize it or unable to experience it. Heaven is the religious name for the Presence of God. (Sermon on the Mount, p37)
As a man is, so he sees. (William Blake, author of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) (TM, p123)
Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed." (John 20:29)
Many of us in this cynical world are 'from Missuri:' "I'll believe it when I see it." Yet the paradox of the Christian life is that we are commanded to "Believe and then you will see it." (Heaven, p11)
As we mature in living according to the divine nature we participate in (II Pet 1:4), we learn to see all things as God sees them. Far from despising anything, we grow toward having the good of all things at heart. (SRC Newsletter, May/June 1997)
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Soup, p69)
The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same. (Meister Eckhart, Wisdom, p270)
We can only know God by God giving us the gift of the holy spirit, for only the holy spirit can know itself. (Randy)
Beginners often feel that as if there is a wall between them and God, but when they reach the goal they realize that there had never been any wall. It was simply that they has been unable to "see" what was there. (Contemplation, p32)