Yesterday\u2019s tip pointed this out:<\/p>\n
The wish to be something leads to identification with a specific body-mind-personality as \u2018me,\u2019 which leads to a distorted way of seeing\u2014seeing form as primary and life as secondary. When the wish to be something dissolves, the distorted way of seeing dissolves too, and then we see life as primary and form as secondary. With this shift in the way we see, everything changes.<\/p>\n
NTI John opens with a focus on light as primary. \u201cLight\u201d is the symbol for eternal, non-changing life, the essence. \u201cDarkness\u201d is the symbol of the ego\u2019s distorted way of seeing form as primary.<\/p>\n
The light is truth, so the light is always present. If we see with darkness instead of light, it is because we think we are something. Of course, that is how most humans see. One might wonder why any human ever awakens to the light. Why does anyone desire to know the light when the perspective of darkness is accepted as truth in the world?<\/p>\n
The best answer to that question is simply that light is our truth\u2014eternal life is what we are\u2014and a belief that we are something cannot fully block truth. At some point, the truth begins to tug at our heart. If we follow its promptings, that tug grows stronger until we find ourselves driven to rediscover truth. That search is never futile, because everything is that which we seek, and it responds to our desire to see it (and ourselves) as it is.<\/p>\n
It is as Michael Langford wrote in The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss<\/em>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In other words, the way to truth realization is to follow our desire for truth realization. If we follow our desire, and keep it foremost in our minds, everything else will happen naturally to bring us to awakening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday\u2019s tip pointed this out: The wish to be something leads to identification with a specific body-mind-personality as \u2018me,\u2019 which leads to a distorted way of seeing\u2014seeing form as primary and life as secondary. When the wish to be something dissolves, the distorted way of seeing dissolves too, and then we see life as primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101,88],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gentlehealingtips-year2","7":"category-sidebar","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n\n