If your awareness shows you only the negativity within yourself, you will see only negativity in everything around you. If your awareness is positive you will see the positive around you. Like sees like.
We have a natural affinity for seeing ourselves in others. A natural affinity towards compassion. When our perception is clouded. If we see only the dark within ourselves, we then see only the the dark everywhere, in everyone and everything. We become blind to all else. Until we break free of our own limitation, we are caught inside a circle of darkness. We can not see outside the circle. What we see is what we reflect and what we reflect out reflects back to us, this is a cosmic law in action. If we are surrounded by our own dark self there is no mirror to reflect the light.
We are limited (as part of our agreement to embody our-Self) to seeing the world only through our own eyes.
How you see yourself is how you see everything.
Yoga means union, union of the individual with the Supreme. Yoga brings together the light and the dark. The sun and moon, left and right, yin and yang, internal and external. Makes all one. Joins together. Being, non-being, form and formless.
How you see yourself is how you see everything.
How can we see the world (and ourselves) through different eyes? There are only two ways, both arise from love.
Love of the inner teacher and the scriptures can show us the inner light, or devotion to an external teacher (guru: sk. def. One who leads from dark to light) and the scriptures open our eyes just wide enough to see the shining light within.
When we see the world as it is, in this moment, both the light and
the dark, we are free. Light and Dark. It is us and not us. It is others
and us as well. This encompasses everything.
How you see yourself is how you see everything.
(Sources: the Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Tamil-Cube Sanskrit Dictionary)
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