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[Tree Hugger]

Hello Seekers

Each time you turn your attention to a new scene, whether it is looking out your window, or looking at a crowd of people or one of a hundred pictures that come into the viewing screen of your mind each day, your mind has many choices upon which to focus.
The mind screens out those things deemed less important to it. Those less important things fade to fringe perception, while the mind remembers only those things it finds useful.
The one foraging for food would not care about the balance and symmetry of the plant it wishes to consume. The only thing that is cared about and seen is its value as a food.

This is why no two people can look upon a single scene and see it the same way. Perceptions are as varied as fingerprints. One’s age, experience, and awareness level all play a part is what is seen or not seen, and what is placed in the front of the mind. One’s belief system also has importance in the decision making of what will end up on the cutting room floor.

Seeing In A New Way

Each human has chosen different parts of each picture, on which to focus, hence, no one can make a judgement and say one is more accurate than another.
A truly wise person will see this and not insist their perception is the only one in the world.
It is not the outer world, which sets the level of perception, but the inner world.

One who believes all is created by a loving Mind, would see evidence of that Mind everywhere, but one who believes the Cosmos has nothing to do with love, would not see things as created by loving intent.

To one person, a nebula looks like the eye of God, to another it looks like a collection of gases which the imagination forms into an eye. One person sees the phi spiral and the golden ratio and sees just an interesting arrangement of numbers, but to the other, this perfection is proof of the superlative Mind behind such a design.

The one who says there is no designer, must conclude that the petals of the flower just arranged themselves in such a way that none of the petals receive less sun than another. But the one who sees a designer, sees the efficiency, and attention to details that only a master lavishes on the masterpieces.

The one seeing these patterns, must conclude that the designer cares about his work and this great care is translated into love. Humans want and crave love, yet many don’t understand that craving is their wish for personal fulfillment placed in them just as the sunflower craves for its fulfillment.
Every expression of creativity and building is an expression of love, so that humanity duplicates the same mind patterns of the Divine Mind. But to someone not seeing the details or not caring to look they remain hidden.

The sweetness of honey is a delightful gift, and is a token of love when given from one human to another, as is the gemstone, or the bouquet of flowers. All of these are accepted as symbols of love from other humans to another, yet not all persons accepting such loving gifts from humans will acknowledge an original provider.

One cannot unlearn, what they have learned. Perceptions never get smaller but always expand, and knowledge grows, so the one who does not see a designer behind life has the potential to sometime see it. Until that time not even a mountain of evidence with convince him that what you see, is really there. It is as invisible to him, and not part of his perception. Free will has always given the choice of seeing the world through any kind of perception one wishes to create.

The flowers, the insects, the plants, all parts of creation display wisdom, but in the world of humanity wisdom had to be learned, and does not come with built in instinct.
If the sunflowers had shown the same lack of interest in sharing with all parts of the flower, which humanity has shown, they would be as stinted, feeble and unhealthy as humanity has become.

But with free will comes a choice of seeing the need to cooperate or not seeing it. It is such a simple part of the picture but missed so often. It comes back to love again. One could say that the sunflower has no choice and must love all parts of itself if it wants to continue growing and flourishing, but each human, has a choice to withdraw from the rest and try to go it alone. Such going it alone, is only a illusion, because humanity can no more go it alone than can the bees go it alone or the clouds go it alone, but for thousands of years humanity has been drifting further apart and now live in islands of separation.
So if you are waiting for the rest of humanity to take pictures that all agree with yours, know that perception like those scenes in the mind of the outer world will never agree, neither can there be any consensus while free will remains in place.

Find the love in each moment or say it does not exist. Learn from the consequences or don’t. Choose to learn wisdom or remain in ignorance. All are choices. We exist and live in unity but we make our choices individually. This is why your will is not connected to the will of another but stands alone and choice of perception is what defines you are being human.


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