What you see, 7-2-2016

I heard a little southern lady say this and it cracked me up.  But she is right of course.  You can sugar coat anything and it still is what is was before the sugar coating.  Look for what is truly inside people because no matter what they look like on the surface, it is not necessarily what lies within.

I think that people are good on the inside, at the basest level of who they are, I know they are good.  People do show what they are in a crisis situation, they do.  You may not know your neighbor before a tornado hits your block but by golly they are there for you afterward. Or any other natural or man made crisis.  People come together to care for each other and the world itself will send out loving prayers for you because they feel your pain.

While this may not have been her true meaning or what she was trying to say, But this is what I got from it.  There are many unenlightened souls  who only see what they want to see, even a sugar coated turd as a piece of candy, but bite into it and you will find out that you were only looking at the surface and seeing what you wanted to see.

But really you can only see in others what you see in yourself.  If you see beauty and love in yourself, that is what you will see in others.  If you don't see, because you are asleep going through life, beauty and love in you, then the mean, ugly, unkind people will reflect back to you what is in you and you will only see that in others.

And I honestly don't believe people are mean and nasty, only unaware of the beauty and love that they are deep down.  Maybe they had a hard upbringing, which has a lot to do with how people behave because they learned it as a child, or they just have not yet awakened on a spiritual level, but either way they have the power to change all of that.  Look into your own eyes in a mirror sometime, that soul deep within you, that inner child who just wants your own love.  Put that mirror up close so that all you are looking at are your eyes so that you are not distracted by the beauty of your face.

You deserve your own love as much (more so really) as anyone else in the world deserves your love.  Until you see the reflection of the divine in you, you are not likely to see it in anyone else, and so how deeply can you love others if you don't love you?  And that divine reflection is there in all of us.  As it always has been and always will be.  So look past the sugar coating, past the surface of the physical that you see, to what is truly there.