use your special eyes
Sometimes you forget to think,
to analyze and compartmentalize,
and instead you just gaze,
and finally you really see,
see the glory hidden in the ordinary,
the light in the stone,
the angelic being
in the person next to you.
Maybe righteousness
is not moral perfection
but seeing clearly,
with the delight and wonder
with which God sees,
seeing with eyes for holiness,
seeing the divine in people
and treating them so.
Maybe faith
is not certitude
but seeing what is truly before you,
seeing the bud in the bud,
the child in the child,
and remembering
even when you do not see.
Maybe enlightenment
is not understanding
but seeing the light
as if for the first time.
Maybe wisdom
is not knowing
but looking.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
http://www.unfoldinglight.net
Photos by Fisherman Dan @ Branford, CT
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