We have all heard that we are not to judge by appearances many times throughout our lives. For some of us we would love to embrace it, but well, it's really tough when someone is screaming at you giving the appearance that it is about you, but in actuality, it's not. It's hard when our lover breaks off an engagement and says of the reason, "It's me, not you." For others, appearances not being a reality just doesn't make sense. That is until you ask them to stand on a railroad platform and explain why as they look further down the tracks seem to join together. You can ask them if this is a reality. Do the tracks really come together at some point? They will answer no, and never comprehend that this is Life giving them a hint at how things really work. Now we take this nonbeliever to Yellowstone Park and we point upward towards the mountain, Eagle Peak which sits so majestically amongst the wildlife and the greenness of the bush. We ask our nonbeliever if they see how the sky sits upon the mountain's peak. And they marvel with a lovely smile and say, yes, yes they see it. And now we ask, so... "Is the sky really sitting upon the summit, for I thought the heavens were a bit higher in altitude than that." And they look at us strangely and tell us, "No, the sky is not sitting upon the peak, it only looks that way."

It only looks that way, but it is not so. This is how all of life is. It only looks that way but it is not so. That lovely person that is you? Yes, you are lovely, but a week ago, an hour ago or yesterday perhaps, do you recall how you weren't so lovely then? Of course you do, for this is true of us all. Nothing is how it appears all of the time. "Why does thou callest me good? There is none good but the Father above." This is biblical, but perhaps we can find something similar in the Koran, in Buddhist's texts and Hindu literature. I would highly suspect there to be something akin to this deflection of attributing qualities to the "flesh" in every body of spiritual knowledge known to us. So, you are saying, "Okay, okay, I get it. But tell me how this is? How can you say that I am not struggling financially, how can you say she doesn't have cancer, how can you say there isn't hate in the world? How?!"

So, this is how it works. God is so unfathomably powerful, that whatever God creates has life. But God is so unfathomably powerful that whatever God creates, creates life! Do you see how significant this is? Do you comprehend the implications here? For what I am saying is that we are creating life as well. In his book, The Healing Path of Prayer, Ron Roth cites a wonderful quote by Jesus, "If the flesh came into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel. But if the spirit came into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels." This is an extraordinary insight given to us, for we do create life/spirit- in a way. When a musician composes a piece of music that moves us, the spirit of her music strikes our soul. When we hear some orators, we can be bought to tears by the spirit of their words. Yes, when we tap into our genius, we create spirit, but here's the important part, we are only creating the appearance of life for the true Spirit of music, words, line and composition, the structure from which we build our genius was given to us by the Eternal birther. We are only creating the appearance of life, for all that we create perishes, and more importantly, God created the Universe, the world and these are the only eternal creations. Also essential to note, is that God created Life and pronounced it as "good." If you can believe this, or at least understand that all creative powers come from God, and we are but actors in sense, acting out a play that seems real to us in every fashion, then you stand poised at your awakening. However you interpret this, we are blessed with the ability to create in any fashion, yet cursed with the inability to see the creations as belonging to us, brought to life by our own hand. This is why we are here. We are here to learn to create with wisdom. But we can only do that if we take ownership of the beauty and the error we have given birth to. Only then can we transform our creations.

We live in a world where we are not to judge because what we are judging is not Life, but ourselves. Disease is not real, poverty is not real, greed is not real, broken relationships, depression, anger, bad luck, prejudice, race, age- none of these things are real. We created them, and we gave them life with the little "L". This little "L" designation is what makes it merely an appearance.

These kinds of truths, divinations and interpretations of the ultimate truth must be meditated on. Constantly. This is most often, or for most of us, not the kind of revelation that you get fully and completely upon a first or second read and then find your life altered. However, practicing how to think and how to believe, which itself is an art form, is what changes the inner landscape of our minds. And as we sow higher understandings, the weeds are removed from the roots, and little by little we create an Eden of the Mind.

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