To See Reality, Use Spiritual Perception

Everything is a symbol.

We all know that perception is reality.

And since that’s true, wouldn’t the whole trick be to shift our perception to the best reality we can imagine?

Wouldn’t we choose a reality based on the omnipresent, omnipotent, omnipresent essence of Good and Love?

In fact, most of the world has that point of view in one form or another. But how do we prove it to ourselves?

We use spiritual perception. This is the ability to see what looks like a material person, place, or thing and see it as it actually is — an idea of the Divine — spiritual.

Because we have an imperfect perception of the perfect expression of the Divine, we can only understand it through symbols.

The entire universe is one enormous package of symbols. Knowing that to be true, we recognize everything as a placeholder, an icon, a symbol for its true essence.

However, this ability to see using a spiritual perception takes practice. Happily, we always have symbols to practice with.

Let’s use the symbols of showers, rain barrels, wind, and fire to illustrate this idea.

Showers As Symbols

Next time you are taking a shower, look up. Notice that the water comes out as streams, each individual and unique.

However, each stream, or drop, is part of the entire water flow coming through the showerhead.

In the same way, we may look like individual people, but like the water coming through the showerhead, we are one.

Rain Barrel’s As Symbols

Our rain barrels’ job is to collect, contain, and save rain for later.

However, rain falls impartially over everything, not just into the rain barrel, because rain is unconditional in its distribution.

Everything receives the gift of rain. Nothing it fell on had to do anything to deserve it.

Although we may collect provisions in all their forms in something like a rain barrel, it would be silly to think that the only water available is in the barrel when rain is falling everywhere.

Divine Mind is always raining provision, impartially and universally.

Instead of focusing on what we have collected in our barrels—checkbooks, banks, jobs, clients, etc.—we can see the infinite provision always given to us. It’s not because we deserved it, but because grace is impartial, like rain.

Wind As Symbol

The wind comes from somewhere and goes somewhere, but we never actually see it.

What we see is its effect as it passes through. During a windy week in spring, there were branches on the ground and red, fluffy maple seeds everywhere.

The wind didn’t start out deciding to do these things. It was just being itself as wind, and it, too, impartially affected everything.

When doubt or confusion attempts to creep in and make us question what and where God is, we can remember the wind.

We know that wind exists because of its effect on what we can see.

In the same way, we know the infinite intelligence of the divine Mind through the existence of what we can see and experience.

Fire As Symbol

The fire in our stove fills our winter days with warmth. No matter how often we watch the fire, it is never the same one from the day before or even the moment before.

Every fire burns differently. Every fire is unique and individual, and yet it is always fire.

We know the Divine's constant presence by observing the infinite actions that constantly take place, which can only occur because loving intelligence is the substance of Reality.

Symbols that prove the existence of the Divine as infinite expansion and expression are everywhere.

Practice spiritual perception to see through what appears to be material substance, and it will open the door to seeing life as spiritually beautiful and unfathomably abundant.

What happens if you practice spiritual perception?

Try it, and you’ll find out. You won’t be disappointed.

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