I was sitting with my son in his room tonight. An important part of his bedtime routine is to look at his star projector and just be mesmerized by the moving stars, comets and moons.
The projector is on one side of his room, so if you're looking at the ceiling you see a whole plethora of multi coloured (and slightly dim) stars and lights. However, if you look at the wall that is right next to the projector, you see the same shapes but far more vividly.
This made me think about the nature of the spiritual light in each of us. Sometimes, we can look at someone, whether it be a TV personality or simply an "enlightened" individual and we may think we can see that they are spiritually connected. We can feel that connectedness. This feeling is reinforced if we listen to them speak through lectures, sermons, or seminars and gradually we can use these feelings to feel more connected ourselves.
This analogy seems very apt to me. Some individuals seem far more vivid because of where their stars are projected on the wall. Whereas the majority of us may seem more dull, less lively in some ways.
This is false.
It is important to think of what we are seeing in this metaphor. When we look at the stars on the wall, we are seeing a form of light. We are not seeing the source of the light. We are not even seeing the true "form" of the light itself, because it does not have a true form. Rather, we see something that is familiar. Something that is bright. However, what we see is an illusion.
The light itself does not differ from person to person. The light that we see so well illumined in certain individuals is the same light, the same intensity, the same wavelength in every atom that exists. We're just looking for the wrong things.
Let's all work harder to see better. The human mind is amazing, yet easy to trick. It always sees what it thinks it should. So, looking requires truly seeing and thinking.
