The Vision of Love

When you love someone you have perceived him as he is, and this makes it possible for you to know him.
(A Course in Miracles)

At work I felt competitive with one colleague in particular which is actually quite unlike me; normally I manage to collaborate with pretty much everyone. So at times when I felt annoyed by that colleague in question, I use a little trick: I recall a conversation that both of us had when our children where much younger. He said that he was reading a story to his little boy and often felt so exhausted that he fell asleep in his son's toddler bed. I actually had a similar experience around that time. When our boy was little I could only prevent him from running around at night by falling asleep next to him. Somehow my sleep must have had a soothing influence on him; minutes later he was also gone.

So the mental imagine of this big man lying in his boy's bed made me always chuckle and all the ill-wishes were gone instantaneously no matter what. Perhaps you can use my little trick for your situation as well. Get to know everyone you interact with on a more personal level. Everyone has a story that you can resonate with. Know that whenever you don't experience love, there must be something that you are overlooking. Without love you perceive a distorted perspective of reality, so please do something about it. The vision of love is possible for everyone. Sometimes you  just have to dig a little deeper

I See

An attractive woman rides in the subway and sees a well-groomed man next to her. Suits are rare in today's casual work place, so she figures he must be a lawyer or an investment banker. When they chat she realizes that he is just a lowly research assistant; not that she would hold that against him, but somehow, on a second look, he doesn't look so attractive after all.

When you see, it is literally the 'I' that sees: the ego, the accumulated past and all the associated expectations. So what you see only really exists in your own mind; no one else will perceive the situation as you do. As a matter of fact, life provides you with all the characters and situations that you encounter today, to offer you the opportunity to see for yourself that the world is a different place. When you encounter situations multiple times, you cannot help putting one and one together. The woman in the example will probably learn to look twice, once her 'status button' gets pushed.

One day you wake up from your biased perspective and on that day you are literally a liberated soul, able to see a new world. The trouble only is that a similar eye-opening experience may lie ahead in different aspects of your life. The ego is multifaceted as we all know so well. But it does get easier and the wake-up process is cumulative. Your sensitivity towards life goes up just as you let go of your psychological baggage. The world that awaits you is full of love and abundance. You rub your eyes and ask yourself how you couldn't have seen these gems before. See for yourself my friend!