God is in everything I see - because God is in my mind

How do you look at the world with love?

You don't. You look at it FROM love.

That means you have to have an awareness of love WITHIN your mind and heart first.

Perception looks within, then projects out what is in you. Which means you are always looking at yourself.

"Projection makes perception; the world you see is what you GAVE it, nothing more than that. But, though it is no MORE than that, it is NOT less. Therefore, to YOU, it IS important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the OUTSIDE picture of an INWARD condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the WORLD, but will to change your mind ABOUT the world. Perception is a RESULT, and NOT a cause."

If you do not have an actual awareness of love within your mind, you will not be able to perceive it in the world.

Similarly, if you are not fully identified with Christ within yourself, you will not be able to see the fulness of Christ outside either.

If you consider someone like Jesus, he was so aware of being Christ and identified with love that he was consistently in a loving mindset practically all the time, and so looked out FROM that love and saw with that love.

But the love HAS to be within you first. You can't just sit there and say I'm going to love the world and muster a little bit of love emotion in your heart and think you're doing it.

When I had an experience of God, I was aware of God in my mind in quite a profound way and felt extremely awake, and in that time everywhere I looked there was a deep unconditional love. But I was only seeing that love "in things" because God was in my mind.

"God is in everything I see because God is in my mind."

Without the awareness of God/love in the mind, you CANNOT see God outside. And in fact that's what happened to me, because after a week or two the openness faded and I came back down to Earth in a rather uncomfortable and limiting way, and as I did I could no longer see God in things.

And for a while I was confused because I thought that God was outside of me, and I wanted to be able to "see" him again, but I couldn't see him. The reason I couldn't see him out there - perceive him - was because I was not aware of him within my mind anymore.

So the awareness of God and Christ and love HAS to be in the mind FIRST, this is how perception works. If that is in your internal space and identity, then you will look out FROM that space through PROJECTION, and that projection will lead to what you SEE in perception. And it will then seem as though you are seeing God "in things". But its not that God is in things, it's that God is INSIDE YOU FIRST and you are projecting it.

"My holiness envelops everything I see. - From my holiness does the perception of the real world come. Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty. I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me. Seen through understanding eyes the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself.""

"Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who feel God's Love in them. Their world reflects the quietness and peace that shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy within. What they have felt in them they look upon, and see Its sure reflection everywhere."

"The way to perceive for Golden Rule behavior is to look out from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the holiness of others."

We have to be honest about the degree to which we are aware of and identified with love within ourselves first. If we want to see with love, holiness, forgiveness etc, if we want to see "the real world" or the REFLECTION of heaven upon the Earth, it MUST be inside of us first in our sustained awareness.

It really then boils down to how do you see YOURSELF. What is within your mind, what state of consciousness is your mind in, and how much innocence and holiness and love are you willing to recognize as being true of you? If there are limits to this love, as there generally are for everyone, then these blocks WITHIN need to be lifted if you want to see others or the world in a better light.

The way the world looks to you is really a reflection of how you see yourself.

"All this we see because we saw it first within ourselves."

"It also shows some glimmering of sight into perception's law that what you see reflects the state of the PERCEIVER's mind."

"As you decide so will you see. And all that you see but witnesses to your decision. When you look within and see me, it will be because you have decided to manifest truth. And as you manifest it, you will see it both without AND within, for you will see it without BECAUSE you saw it first within. Everything you behold without is a JUDGMENT of what you beheld within. If it is YOUR judgment, it will be wrong, for judgment is not your function. If it is the judgment of the Holy Spirit, it will be right, for judgment IS His function."