Perspective and Illusions Reality is always changing. Everything is an experience and through those experiences we change, expanding and contracting who we are. We each create our own world putting up and breaking down barriers to others and to ourselves. We put our energy into creating the world we exist in. How is that energy affecting us that we helped create? Fears create boundaries, love removes them. What do you believe at this moment in time and what do you wish to create? What have you created? How we view or judge something depends on our experiences and beliefs. Do we have a need to judge and what comes from that judgment? Everything we believe in, care for and fear is looked at differently by others. Everything, no matter how high and good we perceive them, can be feared by others. An example of this is a man named Jesus. Most people have strong opinions about him as do the many religions that follow parts of his words. He has been called many things, Christ, Prophet, Savior, Sananda, Traitor, Rebel, Son of God, Son of Man, Of Virgin Birth, Conceived like anyone else, Died for our sins, died because his beliefs were more important to him than what others say and more valuable than his life. Some believe that he was a direct descendant of The House of David and therefore had kingly blood in him. That he grew up in the Esscene community at Qumran. That he was the earthly product of those teachings. He was the son of a poor carpenter. That he was founding a new religion/remained a Jew. That he was celibate, that he enjoyed making love. That he was married/never married. That he had no children, that he had children by one or more women. He preached love and kindness. People and the religions/governments that they control have fought many wars and killed millions of people in his name.… The opposite of what he apparently taught and believed, all in his name! Nothing is only Black and White. We fall prey to our own illusions, our fears. Is it the journey that matters or the vast illusions on the way? Choices -- what do you choose to believe about anything and why? Why do we create the reality that we do? The Diamonds that we are. We are all diamonds. Some may be “perceived” as a bit rougher, more “flawed,” brighter or more polished than others. Diamonds, like us, are a carbon form, jewels that may need polishing… Like that diamond, we have many facets to ourselves. So many that each person will look at us differently for they can never see the full beauty of our diamond body and for that matter we cannot see our own! We all have flaws, no one is perfect. No one can be, perfection is the biggest illusion of them all. Even our ideal of perfection is constantly changing and no two people will have the same view of it! Enjoy the good in all people for they all have it as a part of them. People seeking perfection will always be disappointed, both in themselves and others. When someone is constantly looking for faults to correct they cannot take the time to enjoy the wonders of life and the special people in it. It does not matter who you are, Love is available when you allow it to flow. The brilliance of a diamond comes from the light passing through and reflecting off of it. The light is not created by the diamond. If you try to hold onto love it, like the light, gets away. If you let love flow, you will never loose it. If I do not love myself or others it is because I am focusing my energy (consciously and unconsciously) on what is wrong with me instead of looking at the many good points and working to expand them. Expand all that is good and from love by removing the boundaries. The choices, as always, are yours at anytime.