To light a person’s light you have to face that which needs lighting. If you can see the spark of light within a person when you look at them, you will be able to (help them) “light their light.” Trying to connect with them by correcting their dark points instead of building on the light that exists within is a path that will lead to failure more often than it leads to success. People who are encouraged to feel good about their abilities are able to feel accomplished as opposed to being internally needy. When a person is fully faced with the source of the light, then darkness does not exist.

Facing darkness with light is helpful but there must be a relationship with darkness for you to do that. All the branches need to face the center (Numbers 8:2). When they do then all the light is connected to where it is supposed to be. If they are not facing center which is the source of all life then the light’s shine is off center. 

My grandfather told me that the main thing is the question, not the answer. Questions cause us to search in places where we may not have checked previously to find answers. This enables us to be open to what we may not have thought about or understood prior to searching. Easy “pat” answers pacify us and discourage us from searching further to find the truth. Many a person is often afraid to look at the truth clearly as it may result in having to alter his/her lifestyle. This fear often continues for many until they are left with no other choice.

In life there is always space for expansion beyond our current perception and comprehension. There are certain conditions which we should truly attempt to correct in order to enable us to move forward together. We should cease to judge ourselves and others. We should stop requiring that things happen or be conducted in only one “specific” way in order to consider them “acceptable.” We should learn how to demonstrate love without destroying it based on unrelated personal issues. A lesson can be learned from having two ears and one mouth. We should attempt to listen twice as much as we speak.

When looking at matters from a physical or spiritual perspective, what we see is limited. When large groups of people regain their ability to connect with pure hearts, we will no longer need to understand every facet of things before we can accept them as simply being what they are. That will allow people and things to simply be themselves with no requirement to alter their identifying traits. In this way the whole world will undergo metamorphosis to a state of peaceful co-existence.

Life is full of choices. How we relate to those choices is often reflective of who we are and our living environment with its impact upon us. In our busy lives it is so easy to focus on the surface and ignore the very depths of our being. The flower bud is a budding example. Initially one only sees the “bud” of the flower. However, when one recognizes that this is representative of the beginning of a larger creation it can alter the way in which one views the developing plant. We can choose to focus on every detail of something, or see a picture that encompasses the whole. Details may enable us to better understand something. Yet becoming fixated on small details may cause us to lose the larger purpose of our existence.

Instead of searching for complete truth and revelation, people the world over revere small bits and pieces of truth and hold them sacred. This closes them off from discovery of truths that exist beyond their limited space. The strength of their attachments often prevents them from letting go of superfluous behaviors and beliefs that limit their connection to the larger universal order.

Is the god you believe in limited to your belief?  When we pause to look more deeply we may find that there are many things that we hang onto that make no difference on a physical or spiritual plane. Leaders of groups try to persuade people to do things by scaring them into believing that not doing so will result in evil consequences. Thus, people are often afraid of losing their standing in good graces within that group, as any deviation on their part will cause them to be negatively judged and punished.

The only thing that will become lost when one considers the truth in order to determine one’s course of action is the power of certain people to corrupt things. It is said that assigning absolute power (to any one person or group of people) has the power to corrupt absolutely. Consider then the results of accepting that the only place that one should turn to for answers is the source that truly controls and properly assigns the flow of all power and energy. It is a place which will not allow you to either succumb to or be affected by any type of corruption. There is only One, the source of truth and light that illuminates our world when we open ourselves to reception.