On Day 74, we saw that Love is life-awareness. The light is also life-awareness. Love, light and life-awareness are synonymous.

On Day 74, our tip said:

When NTI says that our Father is the extension of Love, it means that life-awareness is the only present reality. We are asked to see anything that isn’t love (life-awareness) as meaningless and valueless.

Since everything is life-awareness in reality, what isn’t life-awareness?

Mental interpretation isn’t life-awareness. We are to see mental interpretation as meaningless and valueless.

That is the essence of today’s reading too. Today’s reading teaches that everything is light. If we do not see only light, it is because we choose not to see it.

Some of us may think that we do want to see everything as life-awareness, but NTI is clear that if that were true, we would see that way. Since we don’t see that way, it means we don’t want it as much as we think we do.

This points to a core problem:

We may think we value truth,
but what we really value is our thinking.

Every time I believe a judgment in my mind about anyone or anything, I choose my thinking over truth.

Every time I think thinking is the answer to a problem I perceive, I choose my thinking over truth.

Every time I think I know or understand something based on my thinking and my past experience, I choose my thinking over truth.

This has been pointed out to us before. On Day 79, our tip said:

It’s important to be clear that if it were not for the mind, our truth would be obvious to us. This is important, because humans tend to value their mind above everything else that they value. That means that we put the obstacle to truth above everything else in our list of ‘What Is Important to Me’.

The false self is made up of thought. If we value our thinking, we value our false self.

What we truly are is freedom. If freedom chooses to value a false idea about itself, freedom sees falsely. That is the essence of freedom.

In order to see truly, we must value truth over falsehood. That means we must value the presence of life-awareness as everything  over thinking, which defines everything differently.

When we look at the world, we often see people doing things that we think they shouldn’t do. We see people in situations and places that we think they shouldn’t be in. Interestingly, that is not how knowledge sees.

Knowledge sees the light in everyone and it sees everyone in the light, because knowledge knows only the light. When the light is all that is seen, there isn’t a judgment that someone is doing something they shouldn’t do or that they are in a situation or place they shouldn’t be in.

The only “mistake” that knowledge knows of is the mistake of not welcoming the light. In this case, mistake means “to misunderstand or misinterpret.” It can also mean “to identify wrongly,” but it doesn’t mean to do something one shouldn’t be doing or to be in a place or circumstance one shouldn’t be in.

Since knowledge sees the light in everyone and sees everyone in the light, the only “mistake” is misunderstanding reality, and the only “correction” is accepting reality as it is. Since one can accept this correction at any time, everyone is always in the right place. No one needs to go anywhere else or do anything differently.

I remember when I first became aware of John Sherman. His awakening came while he was in prison. During the interview that I was listening to, he explained that being in prison was the perfect place for him to be in order to realize truth. And then he looked at the interviewer and said, “And your life is the perfect life for you to realize truth.”

That’s how knowledge sees.