Radiance

ld be a radiant one. How do we know? Because its reflection on the physical plane is light and radiance and because that is what you see when the Divine, as essence, looks out from your eyes. The world looks different when you are awake and aligned with essence. It shines, it glows, it shimmers, it sparkles. People, plants, animals, and objects radiate the light of Being. They always have, but not everyone sees it. The egoic mind doesn't. It is too busy comparing, judging, labeling, and evaluating what it sees to notice the radiance. When essence looks out of your eyes, however, everything shimmers and shines.

This seeing is not like the usual seeing. It is subtler, but it is still experienced as seeing. It is as if the usual seeing becomes infused with light: The radiance of the Divine spills out of everything. It erases all boundaries and reveals that all is light. All is itself as light. All of creation shimmers as One Being.

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