773 thoughts on “We see what we want to see …”

1. “what really happens is that we have actually seen it and everything with and around it but have just as quickly dismissed what does not fit the picture of what we are expecting to find.“ Wow, I have to wonder how much of my life this is going on in. I recently clocked how sore my eyes became when watching someone in my life, I wanted to squint them and they stung. I have recently realised there were things there I didn’t want to see, and even when I tried to be open to understanding what that was, I had an expectation of what I thought it was likely to be, so I couldn’t access the true cause of my sore eyes around this person. I have just today understood what that is and it’s not what I thought it was. It didn’t fit with the version of life I preferred. I have to wonder how much we extinguish our own vision health over time by this practice of filtering what we see, based on what we want or are comfortable with.

   1. In my experience, our vision changes according to how we use our eyes, in line with how much we are willing or not willing to see.

      1. Thanks Gabriele, in my experiences I notice there is a hardening, like a slight physical contraction of the eye when I don’t want to see something, which I feel must accumulate as tension in the tissue of the eyes and affect my vision.

      2. Great observation and it would certainly have an impact on the eye muscles and over time change the shape of the eyeball, thus leading to refractive errors.

2. …’while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.’ we can never persuade someone but only reflect what we choose to live ourselves.

   1. I agree – attempts at persuasion only lead to resentment and delay, in the bigger picture of many lives.

3. Gabriele I searched for the error and read the sentence with the ‘y’. I had set myself this picture of how it needed to read and missed it too.

   I’m learning more and more how the senses are here for more than the physicality. For instance, my ears have been a “problem” since I was young and it is in the past two years or so that I have realised the ears can feel just as much as they can hear. I now am able to pick up from a tone of a voice, when something is off. It is far from perfection but learning to use my senses from this place, is far preferable to how I used to live.

4. I did exactly what you did, so I can only thank you from the bottom of my bottomless heart for sharing this as it opens up a whole new way of seeing because I am clearly highly influenced without clocking it!!! So now to bring that awareness into my movements and see what else comes!!

   1. We are being manipulated by the way we have been taught to use our five physical senses at the expense of our sixth sense.

      1. Gabriele there is so much emphasis on seeing, smelling, tasting etc, we are continually manipulated. That sixth sense is never nurtured unless you are bought up in a family that knows how to. It makes absolute sense the reason why a baby will cry when it is born as it senses so much around it, and I can feel the over whelm it is surrounded by as a newborn…

      2. It must feel like an assault nearly, the way we suddenly find ourselves outside that which cushioned us, to a degree. Feeling it all we always did, of course.

      3. We are taught in education to look for something, usually one thing or something specific, we aren’t fostered to just receive in full everything outside of ourselves with our eyes. We seem to impose quite strongly over the body including our own vision, assuming the body is an apparatus for us to use our way, not to learn from the body and feel how it naturally does things and let it take the lead and collaborate with it.

5. You have unravelled something for me here and I can feel I will need to sit with it for a bit to see what it reveals! There are so many parts that stood out but the most revealing for me was how we see so that what we see fits “our preconceived idea of what we deem is true, fervently need to be true, so that our picture of the world stays intact.”

6. That is exactly what I was doing … looking for the ‘r’ that should not be there!!!! Definitely ignoring the simplicity .. I wonder where else in life I am ignoring this?

   1. I have found that once I have become aware of my blind spots, I discover more … and more … and more.

7. I found this blog very supportive and confirming – we are also picking up far more than what we realise and this is to be appreciated. Once we are open to knowing that there is more then what is on offer will show itself.

8. It’s the same for me when I am unsettled and I am looking for an answer or an understanding, I’ve already narrowed my focus and the true answer can’t come through, as soon as you look for something it’s like putting on blinkers, you cannot see and know everything. The key is really to stay open.

9. The beliefs or pictures we hold can be very revealing or quite shocking to say the least. To get a sense of the force of the hold over me is supporting me next time round, to pause and speak up about how I am feeling even if things don’t add up, in order to support me further or more deeply rather than to ignore and keep things to myself.

10. We live inside a box of our own making and look out through our blinkers into a rather narrow tunnel of what we define as our reality which we then doggedly defend, seek confirmation for and shore up.

11. Being honest with myself about my selective sight, hearing and letting through what I feel, is a key starting point to having a realer and richer life.

12. It seems, from reading what you have shared, and from my own experience that we do not use our eyes as they are created to be used; we try to control what we see, or sometimes do not want to see, instead of allowing the images to come to us as per the eyes natural inbuilt function. And with that controlling we are missing out on so much that is being presented to us, and then wonder why we didn’t see what was actually there. Our eyes are so amazing, but it is obvious that we know very little about them, other than we use them to see, and if we lose our sight, that is devastating.

    1. We abuse our eyes by making them look out like hunter gatherers in a way they were not meant to – to the detriment of how we are in and with life and our physiology.

       1. Beautifully put Gabriele, I can really feel in my eyes what you were saying about ‘looking out like hunter gatherers’ and in turn they have stopped doing this and feel far more gentle, but how many times in my day or in life do my eyes look at like ‘hunter gatherers!’ A great reminder to all.

       2. I have never considered this way of looking and interestingly as I consider it now I feel trepidation in my body. For me, that trepidation can only mean that something has been busted and there is an opportunity in front of me to be more aware, so bring it on I say because if I have been using a sense and corrupting it then I have been reducing its communication and what a waste that is.

    2. Yes, it is devastating because it means we are not actually seeing and then mourn a deviation. Chances are we see better when we use our other senses than trust the deviated one that we have come to rely on as truth.

       1. We are best served when we use our sixth sense and then the five physical senses as a confirmation of what we have seen, heard, smelt, tasted or touched.

13. Someone sent me an email the other day and I saw in it many changes to the way I have been organising a particular meeting. For clarification I sent an email to the source of the email and she replied – that is not what the email says. I read it again and she was right, I had completely read it wrongly, yet the night before I had been convinced I was right. Always energy, we see what we want to see, or rather, don’t see what we don’t want to see.

    1. That’s a good experience to share Ariana, the same has happened to me, so I have to ask myself if I see with my heart and receive the truth, or do I see with projections and hurts, etc?

14. Reading this expanded on something I was mulling over last night. Reading the book Time, Space and All of Us: Space there was a part about how much are we missing when we are educated to look rather than receive. I feel the answer is in learning to feel before I see more because what I feel is what is received rather than going outside of myself to feel.

    1. We have the most amazing ‘apparatus’ for deep and rich perception within us and we forsake it in order to go outside of ourselves and pull in what suits us, a poor, paltry and limp copy of the vastness that is available. The access to vastness is within, we go in first before the expansion unfolds.

15. I am also aware of how I use my hearing, responding very often with what I want to hear. However I am learning to pause when something is said to give myself a moment to hear everything that is being communicated to me. We can miss out on so much when we dismiss with our senses all that is there to be received.

16. I agree, the blinkers affect all our physical senses and also our level of comprehension; we continually erect no-go-zones in an effort to shore up our defences and stay put.

17. I have often been surprised to re read an email to discover my typing errors that I have overlooked at the time. It just shows me how often I only see what I want to see and not what is actually presented for me to see.

    1. Same here; I understand that our mind fills in the gaps, makes it look like what is there in front of us is how it should be, above board, all i’s dotted and t’s crossed. Now what does that say about the way we look at the world? Is that truly seeing or a kind of minding the mind’s business, i.e. seeing things through the filter of how we want and need things and people to be?

    2. What a great conversation, are we truly allowing the truth to be seen and received, or do we project our version of what we would prefer to see? And if we did see life exactly as it is, wouldn’t that then be a greater call to responsibility?

18. And we have such a clear responsibility to be super duper honest with ourselves about what we do and do not want to see or hear. Any filter we apply is something to be very aware of – my experience is that it tends to be a reduction of the all that is on offer.

19. It is extraordinary how we can miss something so obvious – it’s the same as ‘I/we cant see for looking’. As long as we choose to wear ‘blinkers’ and only see what suits us, we will always miss the bigger picture of what is actually there to be seen, right in front of us.

    1. Yes, we can’t see for looking because looking is the attempt to draw something in, to make it fit a certain image at the time we want it, to confirm a preconceived idea or held belief. In effect, we turn around within the circles of our self-created bubble and get very upset when we are shown the illusion it all is.

20. What you shared here makes so much sense Gabriele. Recently I found myself liking an advertising campaign that in the form was ‘cool’ and fit with the right standards about what a good design should be but the message felt not right when I shared it with a friend, who made me question about my perception about it. I realized how blind I was by just fixing my view in the form and techniques and not going deeper in to my senses. I could understand why, in the art school no one encouraged us to feel first then seeing second. All was based in what was right in a composition level or what fitted in the art industry or what some few called ‘artists’ said what good art was about. So it is good for me to come back to the years in school and question all what I’ve learned. It was great as I could learn the abilities to approach a design project but now I’m realizing about there was a missing link, my connection with my inner-heart and what I really see from this space. Feels very different to what I saw before…a work in progess to explore.

    1. You make a great point here: we disengage and let our senses, in this case the eyes, decide how something is; but in order to do this, we must have parked our sixth sense elsewhere, sidelined it in fact because it and we know what is true and what is not true. With clairsentience, we cannot be fooled.

21. I had a vivid dream the other night which I found interesting and saw it as a confirmation. I was looking in the mirror, and I looked at my hair, and it looked as though it was going thin on top. So I looked closer, and it looked even more sparse, and then I looked even closer, and I was bald with no hair at all. I told my husband, and instantly he said ‘The closer you look, the more you see’.

    1. Interesting – the more openly and without images and preconceived ideas we look, the more we certainly see; if not, we just get fed what it is that we want and need to see to keep our world view intact and not get any smashed pictures and their associated hurts.

22. Simply being honest about the fact that ‘we see what we want to see’ wakes me up to the moments of self-deception and convenient ignorance.

23. When we choose to only see what we want to see, we can miss out on so much. It is a direct reflection of how little or how much we are choosing to see truth or not.

    1. And it is always a choice, whether we like to hear and admit that or not. Nothing happens by accident or because it ‘just happened’.

24. What I find fascinating is that at times things can appear so difficult and unfathomable but then when the fog clears the answers are all there. In these times we have to read what is in the way and then we can see things from another angle.

    1. We need to reclaim the simplicity that is innate rather than fall for the complications that grate, provide friction and support everything that has been created.

25. Our life is a direct reflection of our choices, there is no way around the fact.

26. The fact made very clear that we see what we have already chosen to see before we see. I get shown this often when I am with someone and we share what it is we are seeing… our perceptions and pre-conceived ideas affect what we see. I am sure that if we strip back all the layers we have accumulated, we would come back to the purity of seeing the one and true view.

27. The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.
    Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367
    I wonder how many of us have experienced this at one time or another. Too many to count I imagine. I know I have missed things in my own life that have been blindingly obvious, by looking for something more complex than the simplicity before me, or even creating something that does not even exist instead of accepting the simple truth that is right in front of my eyes.

    1. We love complexity and complications for the identity they provide in return and don’t seem to mind the blood, sweat and tears that invariably accompany such endeavours. In creation, huffing and puffing are a valuable and esteemed commodity, frequently traded albeit superficially deplored.

28. It is also my experience that we will defend our view of things and people, our judgment and opinion, tooth and nail. It is as though they defined us, made us into something, gave us some substance. In other words, it is a game of and in creation.

29. We see what we are looking for. It’s more effective – we think. It allows us to be a bit lazy. It means we miss out on a lot.

    1. Comfort does make us lazy and then quite bored, which we are loath to admit of course.

30. I absolutely love the simplicity and revelation on offer in this quote – applicable to all areas in life really: “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.”

    1. Driving this morning I kept coming back to this fact – that we can choose simplicity in every moment and that when we do we are touched by something so much greater than our human existence. It is like all the complication we have created obscures our view of how simple things truly are.

       1. We have layered and burdened reality with mental constructs of how we want it to be – it’s like digging holes every morning and filling them up again in the afternoon, just to start all over again the following day. But should someone ask us why we do what we do or suggest we stop doing what we do, we don’t like it and defend this insanity to the hilt.

31. It is actually not possible to see and feel everything – but what is possible is to then reject it. I have observed how I resist seeing the full picture at times but in fact this is the very thing I will learn from.

    1. You have made me curious – what is it we cannot feel in its entirety and why would it be so? What kind of exclusions are you thinking of?

32. During an interview recently, about a vehicle accident I was a witness to, I really got to experience what I saw and what I thought I had seen. It was a very testing moment in time, as I was trying to be the best witness with the most accurate information, but it didn’t take me long to realise that everything I had seen was only a small proportion of what was actually there. I had a moment of annoyance at myself for not being able to recall everything but finally accepted that I could only share what I was sure of. A very valuable experience indeed.

    1. I have heard that regardless ofr the number of witnesses, each one has a different version of a certain sequence of events which goes to show how subjective and coloured by prejudice, opinion, images and needs our physical senses and their functionality are.

33. Complexity is the plaything of the etheric human spirit who seeks to constantly create disorder from order simply so it/we can feel a sense of ownership and identification from it. In contrast to this, the Soul moves simply and wisely in tune with the universal order we belong to and never against it.

    1. Complexity and complications are the hallmarks of the etheric spirit, in stark contrast to the Soul which moves by and with the grace of simplicity within and for the all and has no need for recognition or identification.

34. The other day I was taking some photos of some objects and was setting up some lights I have just for the job, and I needed my largest light stand that has a long arm to light overhead, of what you are shooting. I looked everywhere for the large stand! I keep all of my equipment in one place. But, I could not find it anywhere in the house or the garage. I found it later that night; it is what I have been hanging my bathrobe on for months. What else do I refuse to see in my life, if I miss seeing the big things?

    1. That is not only hilarious but very telling as well – and as you say, what is it we choose not to see when even the big things escape our awareness. What else is there to see and why don’t we want to see it?

    2. Steve that is a crack up and a corker of an example! And we wonder how we cannot see truth in a sea of lies…

    3. That is hilarious and a strangely familiar type of example!

    4. This highlights how we stop ‘seeing’ things that are so familiar to us. It is like we become blind to the everyday everything that is around us and it makes me want to wake up much more and not miss the opportunities right under my nose or take anything for granted.

       1. This is also apparent when we don’t take in and appreciate our surroundings at home anymore – like the picture on the wall in our bedroom that we might have chosen with much care but don’t ever look at for the inspiration and confirmation it offers. The same for ornaments and things we love, the teapot on the table, etc. etc. We just look straight past them.

       2. I know this one. I may write something down as a reminder or something that inspired me at the time but I’ll completely ignore it within a few days until I throw it away. The words no longer valued like they used to be when I first wrote them down.

35. It’s true, we only see what we want to see. I have spent this lifetime not wanting to feel or see the ugliness man is capable of and yet by not being willing to see, we are in fact adding to the ugliness. Turning that around is not easy because there is the willingness to read and see the ugliness, but the feeling of numbness after years of ignoring things is so strong.

    1. Being numb to how out of hand and devastating our way of life truly is becomes our comfort; it is what we know and hanker for at the expense of the multidimensionality we can live.

36. This is such an important article, even though its based on quite a simple observation. But applying this observation to a bigger picture we can start to see, as has been shared here, “that we only see what we want to see and don’t and can’t see what we don’t want to see”. We can get so caught up, even identified with how we see the world and how we want to see the world that we ignore the truth that is often in front of our eyes. But therein lies our dilemma for if we only use and rely on our eyes without all of our other senses working together, including that of what we feel, we will be deceived.

37. Yes and so often we bring in more complexity to try and solve the so called problems which was caused by complexity to begin with!

38. Reading this blog today I can see where much of our modern evidence based medical research perhaps is flawed in that it is based on the model of already pre-deciding or judging what the answer is and then trying to do research to confirm this, rather than staying completely open to all possibilities and actually simply observing what is occurring in life in front of us.

    1. Very true – sponsored science relies heavily on where the funds come from and on confirmation bias and ignores the ‘outliers’, all that doesn’t fit the preconceived picture.

    2. Because of this investment, its like the joy and wonderment of science and in the observation is removed. In fact how can there be joy and wonderment in realising or being open to whatever a finding may be when there is a pre-judgment in what the answer will be. So then we could ask, where is the science?

       1. Science has been sold to the highest bidder – sponsored science and security.

39. ‘The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored’, so very simple, but then truth always – I love the reminder to keep things ( Life ) simple!

40. I find it so fascinating that we so convince ourselves that we are seeing something truly that we can scratch our heads when it turns out to be false. The conviction is such testimony to the fact of our reluctance to expand and grow.

    1. We fight the expansion tooth and nail and defend the indefensible, stubbornly digging our heels in – to our very own detriment and that of all of humanity.

       1. This really doesn’t make sense, does it? And when the veil falls and I see truth revealed again and again, again and again, I catch myself saying how on earth could I have been so blind?!

       2. I know -–it’s the epitome of one almighty dur moment and the disbelief is something to behold as those original moments of not seeing what was there to be seen cannot ever be repeated once our eyes are opened.

       3. Amen to that! The depth of awareness accrued and deeper appreciation that inevitably follows supports a richer sense of purpose. However, in my certain knowledge that I don’t ever want to unsee again what I have seen, I also know there will always be more to see and so there can never be any arrogance that feels I have arrived but a forever willingness to have things exposed that I have denied the light of day.

       4. I love the expression ‘unseen’ – I have at times tried to jump back into an old way of perceiving things and events, but once our eyes have been opened it just doesn’t work any longer. What was seemingly invisible, hidden to the physical eye stands out like dog’s balls and never will it not.

41. The pictures we hold condition us to only see what fits that picture. It becomes challenging when something or someone comes along with another version or a different picture. Do we allow ourselves to consider that our picture may be misguided or do we defend it to the death?

    1. Most of humanity feel threatened when our pictures are challenged by the suggestion of another and truer reality. It just goes to show how strong these pictures are and how we use them to define ourselves and the way we look at life, at things and people.

42. I get how important it is to be open to seeing what truly stands before us rather than what is convenient or fits with our pre-set picture. And I love it when I do because it makes much more sense of the world.

43. We have become so programmed to re-act to life thus we have forgotten that when we use all of our senses we innately can respond to life.

    1. And when we re-act, we are on the back foot and can’t read what is happening any longer; and in come more pictures, beliefs and ideals of how things and people should be like rather than how it all truly is.

44. Illusion can only be sustained if we give more weight to what the eyes see over what the heart can and does feel.

    1. And it happens in an instant – feeling the truth and the default safety position of just as quickly overriding it. Over time and with dedication, we can learn to perceive the gaps and how we are so easily taken by what suits us, by the ‘convenient truth’ that serves the status quo and leaves everything unquestioned and unchallenged.

    2. So many times I have overridden from the head what I have felt and every time I have done this it has proven to be false. The question why is, why keep choosing it? I must admit I am doing so less and less but the scales for me have still not yet tipped totally in favour of the heart.

       1. We want to feel and honour what we feel but then, what we feel we don’t like. And we deny it and bear the consequences.

45. By coming back to the body and feeling first before using our sense of sight we get to ‘see’ so much more than what is physically in front of us. Our clairsentience (feeling sense) is so often over ridden or ignored by our other senses which predominate how we interact with the world, but to what expense?

46. When we ignore the simplicity we are blinded by the complication.

47. Very true. The scientific explanation is that this approach is more efficient but it means we miss out on a lot.

    1. Maybe that’s because science is double-blinded to what is really going on? And efficiency and function are its gods?

48. This is a great example of how blind we can be when we don’t expect to see something – it takes us much longer but eventually the evidence points us towards the truth. How much more blind are we when we don’t *want* to see something? How much evidence do we need then?

49. “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored ~ Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367”. My goodness the hugeness of this phrase just really hit me. How radical this sounds in a world in which we seem to celebrate and champion complexity – in fact the more complicated things are the more most people seem to think they are getting their money’s worth! No wonder all our issues are spiraling out of control.

    1. We identify with complexity because it gives us something to talk about whereas simplicity is a bit too … yes, simple and you don’t get any medals for it.

    2. Well said Golnaz …… “How radical this sounds in a world in which we seem to celebrate and champion complexity – in fact the more complicated things are the more most people seem to think they are getting their money’s worth! No wonder all our issues are spiraling out of control.”

50. This is the dangerous thing with images, it is easy to be fooled and hoodwinked into receiving something totally different to what is actually there.

    1. And mainly, we don’t bat an eye lid, let sleeping dogs lie and don’t rock the boat. What a farce!

    2. True Michael, and I would say also that ‘need’ is an image (of the outcome, timescale or whatever our dictation is) that stops us from discerning, with the result of being hoodwinked and lied to.

51. I wonder how different the world would be, if as a global population of human beings, we all chose to see what here is to see, rather than what we each individually would only like to see.

    1. Truth would be what it has always been – the truth and nothing but the truth without all the man-made interpretations and falsifications.

52. Being able to observe, just to observe, is a rare skill that needs readiness to be completely honest and practise but the payoff can be very large as we will get to be aware of and understand far more than we would otherwise do.

53. I had a situation similar to this recently with someone’s email address. I spent a long time ‘looking’ for the mistake and for ages simply couldn’t see it for looking. But when I let go of trying to see it, I eventually saw the error. Taking a step back and allowing what is front of us to come to us for us to see, allows us that space and grace to ‘read’ everything that is before us.

    1. Stepping back and deepening into ourselves allows space for what needs to be seen to come towards us rather than the other way around.

54. We see what we want to see is so true and the reality of this is a whole new concept to grasp but with an openness of our hearts and our bodies more and more is revealed to us and truly seeing opens up a whole new world and way of living expansively and purposefully.

55. I still find that if I am in a ‘doing’ mode, the world I see closes down to a single perspective and ignoring the obvious becomes the norm. This blog reminds me of those moments to come back to myself.

    1. The doing mode puts blinkers on what is otherwise available and there to be seen and enjoyed.

56. It sounds like you are describing a spoilt child or someone who is having a tantrum and not wanting to see or hear the truth.

    1. We certainly stomp our feet very hard and insist on letting the mind run the show, at the expense of our vitality and wellbeing.

57. So true Gill, it makes me wonder how much of what we see is influenced by our hurts, the energy we align to and our expectations? Our clarity and ability to truly see depends on the energy we choose to align to.

58. It is so true we see what we want to see, no matter what is showing us that there is another way we don’t even allow ourselves to see it. We only want to see what we believe is the truth.

    1. We very quickly settle for a convenient truth that fits all our pictures, images and ideals rather than allow ourselves to see the whole gamut of what is there to see.

59. It also depends on how we move through our previous experiences. What we are and what we are not willing and able to let go of.

60. Our ideals, beliefs, judgments, ideas, notions and opinions really do guide us into what we see and hear and therefore what we don’t see and hear. They place filters over our senses to dull them and they also feed our reactions to life and life events, thereby preventing us further from true sight continuously narrowing our perspectives. But this is not our natural way and we can learn to undo all of these things that prevent us from seeing what is truly going on.

61. Have you ever been in a situation when you know there’s something for you to see but you’re just not seeing the full extent of what’s playing out? Until afterwards when you get to see the full extent of your involvement and the lack of responsibility presented on your part. Big Ouch!
    This is the result of us not wanting to see.

62. I like the phrase ‘mental cages’ as it really sums up what we place upon our mind. We lock in so many things about how we see/experience the world through these mental changes. But the best thing about a cage, is that it often comes with a lock and a key so we can choose to unlock and see the ‘why’.

    1. Or even notice that the bars of the cage are at times non-existent or even inviting us to leave with us resisting.

       1. The cage doors are wide open all the time but just like the caged rat which refuses to leave, we do likewise and literally dig our heels in.

63. Our choices throughout our day will make up 99.9% of what we experience.

    1. And the way we feel about ourselves, our inner dialogue, informs the quality and sense of our choices.

64. “The key to any minor or major problem is
    to find the simplicity that has been ignored.”
    Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367
    So interesting that this should be the paragraph where the spelling error was found. How often do we miss a mistake that is right under our noses, but we simply dont see it because we are so intent on seeing with just our eyes and not with all of our senses and our very being.

65. Correct – acording to our past experiences and according to how we need the world, people, our pictures and ideals to be so we can remain in our slumber.

66. Yes, we dig a hole, jump in and then complain that we’re in the hole – it doesn’t get any more absurd.

67. As much as we see what we want to see we very definitely hear what we want to hear.

    1. We doggedly move and live within a close range of what suits us, of what confirms our preconceived ideas and judgments, of life and of people. And thus, we effectively stall our evolution.

    2. But nevertheless we will feel the truth of our experience, no matter how much we polish it thereafter. Hence, our body is the marker of all truth, as Serge Benhayon has quoted many times before.

    3. Years ago when I was in the Air Force and worked on the flight line around large aircraft and hearing protection was a daily issue. My partner complained about my growing hearing loss and suggested I have my hearing tested. I did the test, and everything was fine. The Doctor that discussed my test results, that just happened to be the head of the ENT (ears, nose and throat) department, asked if I was married and I responded yes. He told me that the longer you are with someone you can develop selective hearing by choice and choose not to hear them.

       1. I have noticed that as well – we use selective hearing and phase out what we think we already know the other person is going to say; it feels like an act of dismissiveness, of not taking another serious, not valuing their contribution. Interesting that the specialist’s question was about whether you were married or not. He was obviously familiar with this syndrome as well.

68. Whatever we want to see, will will find the evidence to prove this to ourselves to.

69. That final quote from Serge Benhayon is quite revealing. In that how we see and walk through life is based purely on ourselves, and all of our choices. There’s that not so little word – responsibility that is highlighted here.

70. An eye opener into our choices and what we choose to see or not. Beautiful offering so much opportunity to makes changes to our lives and see the truth honestly from the wholeness of who we are.

71. ‘…while I had been looking for the aberrant ‘r’, gone into the pursuit with the intention to find and track down this ‘r’, my vision had been very narrow, blinkered and aimed solely at the one and only thing, hunting down this elusive ‘r’.’ This determination to see or look for what we want to see, brings me to the understanding that there has to be an openness to us, a spaciousness in the way we ‘see’ or rather, let the information be picked up on – by our whole body and not just the focus of the eye… May be this is where the term ‘reading’ energy comes from.

72. Serge has totally nailed it with this pearl of wisdom
    ‘The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.’ – When we are caught up in our problem or issue then we don’t see the answer that is standing there right beside us, very clear and obvious to connect to. So it just goes to show the game as when you are in your ‘funk’ there is no way of seeing in and it can perpetuate and spiral out of control.

    1. Being in your ‘funk’ – I hadn’t heard that before; that kind of funk gets very gunky though, doesn’t it? We end up not seeing the forest for the trees.

       1. And, at these times are we just lost in the woods we have created?

73. What we focus on is what we see: do we look for the mistakes, the complication, the lack, the not there or not done yet, or the beauty, the simplicity, ease and natural flow of life? Even if we have always focused on the negative, it doesn’t dictate the future and doesn’t mean that we are condemned to only see that in the future. What we see is a choice, from moment to moment.

    1. A moment to moment choice and alignment indeed – do we look for the ‘what is not’ and have that confirmed or are we open to receiving the ‘what is’ that unites us?

74. Gabriele, I am constantly reminded of this blog when I find myself looking at or for something specific – because in the process you become so narrow visioned that you can easily miss all the other magic that is there to be seen when you are only focused on the one thing. Thank you for highlighting this and reminding me of the more natural eye/vision we have when we let go of the focused intensity that I can so easily fall for, especially as I am a very visual person.

75. I love this example Gabriele, when our ‘vision’ has parameters or a framework placed on it we miss what is truly there. As I read the above and was trying to find the ‘r’ I was blind to the ‘y’, and yet when I looked away and looked back without expecting anything the ‘y’ stood out as clear as day. A great lesson for life, not everything is as it seems.

    1. …and in being open to receive we can truly see with all our senses.

    2. No further explanation needed – when we see without expectations, looking becomes obsolete and life is stripped off its ideals and projected images.

    3. We can apply this to any aspect, view, belief, hurt,expectation or reaction – trying to find ‘x’ I was blind to ‘y’

       1. We miss the simplicity that is staring us in the face.

       2. Profound in the simplicity this example exposes…as you say, how it relates to every aspect of life.

76. Returning to the simplicity of a situation means removing what we have added that is not true nor needed.

77. It’s true, we do see what we want to see and this is made particularly evident when we hold ourselves in stubbornness and demand that the world act according to our pictures.

78. We become blind when we have a picture of what we are looking for.

    1. We focus on everything that fits what we are looking for and dismiss all else as inopportune if not disturbing.

    2. So true Steve. Being fixated on what ‘we want’ rather than what is there for us to see, so much can be missed, and the knock on effect of these consequences can be far reaching.

79. I have to admit I have terrible trouble seeing things at times because of the way my brain works, I can look in a drawer for a pair of scissors and not see them when they are actually there and then by looking in a different way they magically appear.

    1. I have experienced this too and this often happens when I am in hurry or tensed, my vision seems to shrink and become very narrow.

80. When we see something that disturbs us, this tension we feel can actually feed the very ‘thing’ we see, convincing and confirming it in a negative feedback-loop what we think we see, reducing the clarity and capacity to see deeper or beyond the superficial tension. It often takes one to step away and come back later to look with ‘fresh eyes’ to see the bigger picture.

81. What you are essentially saying Gabriele is that we can create our own reality around us we will not see beyond and in that be trapped in our own illusion of what we don’t want to see convincing ourselves we are not avoiding or being irresponsible with how we are living. Quite a massive and hugely important topic when you really break it down

    1. Massive indeed and meaning that we cannot control, coerce, proselytise or otherwise convince anyone as we all see what we need and want to see until we are willing to receive more and move towards true sight.

82. It is amazing how we can blinker our sight according to what we are expecting to find and great to be more aware of this to then work on being more open to truly receive the full picture of life so to speak.

    1. It is an all encompassing experience in life when we receive rather than see through our preconceived ideas. Being open to what is truly there not what we want to see or to be.

83. It is so true that we only see what we are willing to see.

84. Which demonstrates more than anything that we get to the truth in our own time – when we are willing to open our eyes more fully.

85. ‘…while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.’ This is so important to remember, and this is helping me to let go of the investment and need for others to see what I can see, because when we impose truth and love onto others, then our intentions are definitely not from love.

    1. Yes, when we impose it is not ever love, no matter what we say or do.

86. It is true we can choose what we want to see. Take a mess in our homes, we actually get used to seeing the pile of whatever and are able to dismiss it until one day we wake up and actually see the mess and want to do something about it. It just makes me wonder what else and to what extent can we walk past something and think ‘I’ll deal with that later’.

    1. Do we keep lowering the bar and accept as ‘normal’ what is in truth an impoverished existence?

    2. This mess you are referring to Julie, is what I am looking at right now in my home. I find I receive a different perspective when I take a photo of my house and see it through a lens, even though it is a 2D image, what is revealed in a photo is very interesting. It shows up the angles and relationships of objects, which I often miss when I walk past an object or when I place something down on a bench without thinking about how it affects everything else. The messages we receive through our eyes can often be glazed over but if we connect to how we feel in our body, it can be more difficult to miss.

    3. I love what you share here about our willingness to walk past mess and not do anything about it because after a while we don’t even see it. If I go away for a few days, it’s always very revealing to me the quality (or lack of) that I come back to.

       1. We normalise the aberrant and the disturbing, all for the sake of not rocking the boat or standing out from the crowd. Safety and security count more than truth and society as a whole and everybody individually suffers the consequences.

    4. I also, get this sense that when we walk past a situation be it a mess in the house or a conflict outside of the home, we also make a conscious split-second choice to walk on by and dismiss it as if it is someone else’s problem.

       1. We go against what we know fair well is our responsibility and pretend we have not seen or noticed it.

87. Sometimes we can get so absorbed in the details of something that we lose sight of the bigger picture. In a situation such as this, there is much to be missed as although the details are important, they can become self absorbing at the expense of others.

88. We can resolutely be blind to something if we so choose, especially if we stand in a position of defence not wanting to see another point of view, or the fact that we may be in error.

    1. Defensiveness is a huge factor when we refuse to see what is right in front of our eyes; and this defensiveness is mostly based on pride and the refusal to admit one has got it wrong.

       1. Which at the end of the day is a protection of not wanting to feel the hurt underneath that has caused us to want to shut off in the first place. The pride and refusal to admit one has got it wrong gives us permission to not uncover the fact… for if we did admit we got it wrong, space is left for the hurt to come up and be looked at.

    2. Our willingness to truly see requires us to let go of our guard(s), defensiveness, judgement and arrogance.

89. An amazing revelation here about what we see vs what we receive and how we can see what we want to see based on how we are living and how much we want exposed. Ouch.

90. You raise such a great point, about needing pictures of the world to stay intact, so that our conceived ideas about the world can remain intact.

91. Typing up transcripts recently I have also found that the ears hear what they want to hear too. We may have grasped the essence and then we fill in the words to make sense of it…and they may be different from the original that was expressed. I have also been in many situations when I have not heard absolutely and I make up a word that sounds like the one I have missed but that word, in that context, does not make sense – this is often very amusing and sometimes very telling.

    1. Seeing what we need to say can easily be extended to all our physical senses and we notice it every day, if we are open to it. We hear what we want and need to hear and we smell what suits us; if the latter is pleasing, we immediately translate that into needing to eat something. Taste is very similar – if it is pleasing, we indulge and want more, no matter what the body is signalling. Have we allowed our five senses to be corrupted?

92. Today I was with a little girl, and as we were out shopping she stopped and pointed at a sign, asking what it was. I saw looked and saw a sign, so told her what the sign was, but she pointed again and said no, what’s that. It took me ages to see that what she was pointing at and had seen all along, was a small spider sitting on the sign. It made me realise how I had looked with my idea of what she wanted, therefore not really able to see what was there.

    1. In our eagerness we easily miss the point whereas children are direct, unfiltered, unfettered and straight to the point.

93. When in need, reaction or empty of who we are ‘clear sight’ is not available as we will need life to be a certain way to supply our demand. The less our need the more we can respond to life and contribute rather than demand.

    1. Yes, need engenders a certain view and only that view; true sight on the other hand receives it how it is.

94. How many times we see things that other don’t see? Or maybe don’t want to see?
    We can doubt ourselves or we can understand that it just rocks their comfort to see it so simply block it out.

95. It is so true that our eyes only do want to see what to we have our vision reduced to and in that are not able to see the true image, or more so the energy behind it.

96. I wonder how much we look for the issues that we already know that exist versus seeing the whole of a situation?

97. Years ago I lost a work ID card and was required to fill out a form to get a new one, and it had the question: where did you lose it? Well, if I knew that, I would not need a new one. Would a better question have been: where were you in your head, when you irresponsibly misplaced it?

    1. Even then it is too easy to stop at the point where we berate ourselves for being absent or not present, rather than gently bringing ourselves back to ourselves and observing the moment where we disconnected.

    2. Wow, that’s a classic – and good question: where are we when we misplace or lose things? In several places at once, possibly?

98. This is such a great example of the filters we have on what we see in life. Although this is a small and relatively harmless example, it makes me consider how we do not really see each other as we are. We either filter what we see because we want to turn a blind eye to family and friends or we judge and cannot see the essence of a person.

    1. That is pure gold. Firstly, we don’t see ourselves for whom we truly are and secondly, we then do not see the same pristine and unsullied essence in another /others.

99. Great blog to read after I just spent time looking for my phone – forgetting I have put it in a ‘safe’ place.
    When I make life more complicated then it needs be I am bound to lose something and generally find it somewhere very obvious later.

    1. That secret, elusive ‘safe’ place that no one including our self can find. Could this be showing us, our way of being irresponsible and disorganised?

       1. Say more please? About being irresponsible especially.

100. Serge Benhayon’s quote makes so much sense: “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” I have noticed so many examples in life that clearly show this, for example how come it is possible to see all the great points in someone one day and see the worst in them on another?

     1. Could bi-polar effect be caused by the fuel we have put in our bodies?

        1. … and by what we enforce on our body by way of how we look out at the world and then cannot make sense of?

101. True sight is an amazing gift and something we all have within us to claim and live for ourselves and not be blinded by the reflections and pictures on offer for us all out there as a distraction to the truth we all know inside and there are great learnings in this.

102. We see what we want to see is governed by our ideals, beliefs and judgments. The Soul (Love), our innermost aspect of ourselves, has none of these… which exposes the fact of how, in order to live in this world, we have fortified, protected and guarded ourselves, and this takes over our eye sight, casting projection, seemingly informing us of what we see… but in reality, this casting blinds us from having 20/20 vision. Universal Medicine is the bridge back to our Soul… and from there, we realise, we see, how our ideals, beliefs and judgments are simply like cataracts clouding our vision. And from here, the exposing and clearing of these adopted constructs can be dismantled, enabling our body to return back to its original Soulful state.

     1. All eye conditions do indeed have their root in the way we see, or more precisely, in the way we look out to grasp what it is we need and want to see in order to confirm our view of the world and the people in it.

103. Sometimes we can complicate life by seeking the opinion of others when all the time we have the answer right before us if only we would look within.

104. We can so allow what we see to be coloured or influenced by who and what is around us. Therefore altering our own perception.

     1. True – we don’t want to stand out, sing out of tune, rock the boat and align to what seems ‘normal’ or the majority view, the latter quite literally so when it comes to what we choose to see and not see.

105. Something might be as obvious as the nose on our face yet if we do not want to see it we will not see it. This is commonly referred to as “selective blindness” and whilst we think this is our prerogative it does affect not only ourselves but others as well.

     1. We seem to have a lot of selections mefeels – from selective blindness to selective hearing and, rampant world-wide and on ever so slightly declining but still prominent at present, very selective knowing.

106. What also comes to me is that we so often feel a victim to how the world is but what you reveal here is that we are never a victim but always our own master. “We see what we want to see …” this alone is revealed in that already two people can have a completely different view on one and the same situation.

107. Such a relevant topic and observation to explore from every single one of us. How very bound we are by the many beliefs we hold.

108. We all see life differently through our own expression and Journey but this is also a choice as to what we want to see and what we do not for all it will bring up in us. This blog is a celebration of true sight and the wealth of wisdom from this.

     1. ‘True sight’ – requires us to be ready and willing to take responsibility; after all, why have true sight? Just for kicks, for ourselves and our benefit? In the end, everything is in service to humanity and dependent and staged according to our alignment to truth and fire.

109. We actually receive light and images from the world around us, but it’s fascinating that two people can tell two totally different stories from the same reality.

     1. And the different stories come about because everyone has a bespoke set of filters, their own opinions and judgments and a personalised assortment of blinkers, the many must-be, can’t-but-be and should-be conditions that we impose on ourselves first and then onto the world at large.

110. Our senses confirm what our mind has decreed, in advance of the fact.

111. And when we stop being so blinkered, only seeing what we want to see, there is a vastness, wonder and responsibility on offer to live in a way that encompasses and cares for everyone; decisions made not in the narrow view of how to feather our own nests, but how to support and honour all.

     1. When we stop being blinkered, we discover things we did not know we were looking for!

        1. I like that – it means we are being enriched in many more ways than we thought possible and our little mind could conceive.

        2. And all the things that were and are literally under our noses!

        3. Yes Steve and Gabriele – it’s like we walk out in the sunshine being showered in light but we wear dark sunglasses not see the light.

        4. We make sure that our picture of how we need and want the world, people and things to be does not get interfered with and block everything that doesn’t confirm, conform or suit.

112. I am finding more and more when I am with people, if i see only what I want to see in their behaviour then I miss what is truly going on and I will be blind to how I should really be interacting – perhaps reacting to something on a physical level rather than reading what was behind it.

113. Seeing what we want to see (or have been programmed to see) rather than receiving the image of what is there in front of us are two different things. In the first I am in there and become a part of the view. With the second I am not attached and can feel myself whilst I observe what is there to be observed.

114. What do we want – or expect – to see? Looking for something that isn’t there we won’t see the obvious error that is blatantly there. A fascinating blog Gabriele. I didn’t want to ‘see’ what was happening in my family as a young child, so became short sighted from a very young age and consequently have worn glasses ever since.

     1. Exactly and great point – every effect (nearsightedness in this case) has a cause (not wanting to see what was happening in your family). Once we can nominate it for what it is, true healing can begin and, if at all possible, the physical body will also reverse what can be reversed.

115. “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.” – This quote is gold and reminds me of what to keep putting into practice each and every day!

     1. I agree Henrietta. Bringing simplicity to anything also brings clarity and understanding – the complete opposite to complexity.

     2. Yes, keeping things simple is key… Love is in simplicity… and when reading this golden quote you have mentioned, if we interchange ‘simplicity’ with ‘love’ it makes me see and realise how we do ignore ‘love’ – even disconnect from it, and it is from this point on that complication / distraction has the capacity to skew our vision.

116. We only see what we want to see so true and yet the expansion and joy of seeing more is very beautiful to feel when we surrender let go and allow ourselves to truly see without our pictures, expectations, judgement and hurts.

     1. Seeing the bigger picture – not just what is available for us as individuals – enables us to ‘see’ more.

117. The title of this blog is actually a very wise statement to remember… as just saying it during our day, offers the ‘blinkers’ we have unconsciously put on, to be removed, that then allows us to have greater clearer vision.

118. The human body responds in the most amazing ways when we get out of its way and allow the expansion that has been offered it.

119. It is amazing how blind I am when I am fixated on thinking I know the answer (aka being right)… blind and shut down to learning, which is utter madness.

     1. Utter madness it is but it is also the way we have been educated and conditioned – being several steps ahead of ourselves and everything, just in case. In other words, we live from an anxiousness that drives our thoughts and actions.

120. If we ignore the simplicity in life it means that we are choosing to fill it with complications.

121. Yes it is very true that we only see what we want to see and experience and what slots into our picture – when in fact we have the choice to receive images and to see everything for what it truly is.

122. When we know that in a particular field or skill we are an ‘expert’, it’s so important to furthermore keep developing, learning and increasing the quality of our work as opposed to settling for a ‘very good’ standard and progressing no further.

123. “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” (Serge Benhayon)
     This really does expose how much time we actually in spend our lives with blinkers on…

124. Yes indeed…There are so many visual tricks and puzzles out there clearly showing how we can choose to see what we will see… It really does behove us all to connect with that extraordinary feeling of looking from within and observing what is truly there to be seen.

125. Amazing really how the answer to missing the typo is actually in the quote!… “They key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored….” (Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367)

126. Its clear to see after reading your blog how we can be so blinkered or tunnel vision by our own expectations, or by taking on someone else’s point of view, persuasion, influence rather than standing back and allowing ourselves to see the bigger picture. There is so much more going on than we choose to be aware of.

     1. We grab the tiniest of tiny bits and think this is it, this is all there is – out of anxiousness and a perceived need for protection.

        1. ….And also out of a need to be right or better than. It’s a humbling moment – a correcting moment – to feel how detrimental this is within our own body as well as how this human attitude impacts on our relationships with others.

127. Yesterday at work I looked at a woman who was coming on shift and simply saw her as that, a staff member starting work, moments later I decided to really let her in and only then could I see and feel how tired she actually was and how she was unable to even cope with the work load ahead of her.

     1. There is a lot to see when we truly open our eyes to what is there to see, right in front of our eyes – as the saying goes and clearly demonstrates. What is it that we know and don’t want to see or know?

     2. That’s a valid point you make here marylouisemyers, how often do we actually see people and take the time to clock what’s going on for them. Just think how different work would be if we as bosses read where our employees are at and took the time to enquire what’s going on for that person.

        1. It would mean that people come first, well before function and the systems we have wilfully and to our own detriment, created.

128. “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.” So true and an amazing observation of life and all it entails and shows us when we want to see and what we see when we don’t want the responsibility of what is being shown to us. A brilliant sharing and honesty.

129. We can often be sidetracked into pursuits that lead us away from the simplicity and flow that is there is life. What is interesting is why we make things complicated and reading this rather than disappearing down the rabbit hole.

     1. Do we love complication because struggle and hardship identify us, set us apart and give occasion to the many sighs and huffs and puffs that we think convey a sense of importance and portent?

130. I know that I will often see what I want to see because seeing anything else will mean taking responsibility for all that I have chosen to not see for so long, and hence – expose the lies that I have not only been living with but perpetuating for everyone else.

     1. Responsibility or, more precisely, the lack of it, is the reason why we don’t see what is there to be seen, the reality of how things and societal life are for now. Instead we choose the images we have created to cope with life and otherwise numb what we presume might otherwise overwhelm us.

131. Reading this blog is a literal eye-opener in regards confirming the fact – what we see is not all that we see unless we are prepared to see it.

132. “Vision has become part of the scaffolding that holds everything up and together and makes it, in our opinion and within our set of beliefs and images, mentally congruent” – Spot on Gabriele. What forms a foundational part of our reality is how we choose to perceive and receive things that happen in life.

133. It’s well worth being aware of ourselves, for our opinions and attitudes certainly have the influence to persuade and make us see what we want to see, rather than seeing clearly without a tainted lens.

     1. So true johannebrown17. We can so easily colour what is in front of us with our own judgement and expectations, rather than seeing what is actually before us in its simplicity and truth.

        1. It can be really surprising as to how much we filter truth according to our judgement and expectations. We can swear blind that blue is black until one day a shock rocks us out of our comfort. It is an indictment on the human condition that it takes such a shock before we are truly ready to admit it.

134. I wonder if it is more what we expect to see. A lot of people expect to see something bad in certain situations even though they don’t want to see that, but they still do even if there is nothing there or if things are quite different.

     1. We can do a simple experiment Christoph and ask people what the see and compare their descriptions. Sure there will be different observations, based of these peoples perception but almost never from their clear vision as that is hardly seen.

        1. I think it is well known in criminal investigations that witnesses quite often give conflicting information because of their interpretations of what they saw or what just happened, which certainly supports Serge Benhayon’s quote – ‘Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.’

        2. And in admitting that this is by fact a truth there is the opportunity to accept the offering that is there for all of us. The offering that we live in a space of energy and that we either are moved by the energy of unawareness or by the energy of conscious awareness and that we do have a choice which one to align to.

135. I totally misread a short 5 words email this afternoon and then replied to it and caused much confusion. When I re-read the email I had replied to, I couldn’t believe what I had missed. It was completely opposite to what I thought I had seen and I realised, I had allowed a preconceived idea cloud what I read. This is how mistakes are made and I learned a huge lesson to be fully present with all that I do and treat each moment as new and unpolluted by any previous experiences. This reminds me of this blog, ‘We see What We want to see…’

     1. Yes, I have done the same – gone off on a tangent because I had reacted to something I thought I had read. A real time and energy wastage it is when I don’t read the energy first.

136. We only see what we want to see is a great understanding of life and how we perceive it through our own filters but it also opens up the possibility of the real truth and seeing it clearly if we choose to from this knowing that we feel it all really all the time.

137. If we accept that ‘we see what we want to see’ then the inspiration is there to strip things back to their simplest form, doing away with the filters through which we distort life to fit our pictures, and see things in their raw and purest form… it is then that we have a working foundation to understand and be in life.

138. How often is it that I get an ah ha moment and realise something that then I reflect on and feel was there all along. I may say I didn’t know it was there but dig deeper and I can feel how I always knew it was there, I was just looking slightly away to ignore it.

     This has often happened physically too: noticing a sign or a building I’d walked past a million times but had not registered it. So incredulous I’d not seen it as it is so obvious, I’d like to say to myself it must have just been put there but, on inspection what’s there is weather beaten and clearly not new.

     I know I won’t see everything in life there is to see and address but I’m appreciating I am accepting this process of seeing things and being open, not holding myself to a version of life as ‘that is the way it is full stop’ as I had done. Accepting the world is in constant expansion and change has been big. It requires I live each moment and respond to life, not live life according to a rule book in my head which requires the world to fit into a particular theory.

     1. ‘Holding ourselves to a version of life’ is a great way of putting into words how we control and contort ourselves in order to make life fit our expectations, images and ideals.

139. One of our main problems is that our society has placed value in an intelligence which has tunnel vision rather than in the knowing we all feel from within when we let go of our ideals and beliefs.

140. So true Elizabeth, control narrows ours senses and leaves us blind to truth and simplicity.

141. The more invisible filters (blinkers) we wear over our eyes the more distorted our view of life and the world gets because once we discard these filters and use our eyes in its natural state we get to see the true beauty and the magic that is all around us.

142. It is empowering to see what is there to be seen without pictures, expectations and beliefs. It puts us on the front foot where we feel prepared for life rather than on the receiving end of it.

143. This is a great example of how much more there is to what we see than what is physically there. Our expectations and perceptions have a huge muddying effect on our vision, confirming what we want or expect to see.

     1. Yes as do our pictures and beliefs, if we think we are right then it completely blocks the truth of what is before us, in no different way to if we think we are wrong,

144. If we brought this ability to ‘see’ or ‘read’ what was in front of us on a bigger scale to everything in our lives, we would no doubt reduce the level of stress, anxiety and tension amongst other things that exist in our world today.

     1. Yes, there is so much to what you have said here. When we read, we read life from all angles and not just from a blinkered perspective that I know I used to use to make life all about me, what I did wrong and the pressure I put myself under to make things happen or go right. When we read, we read how everyone is part of a whole and so when we respond, we can respond in accordance to the whole and not just our individual interests.

145. “I had gone into the looking, staring and searching with a preconceived idea, a judgment, an opinion, an image of what I was going to find, i.e. an aberrant ‘r’.”

     This got me thinking, how many of us start our days with a preconceived idea, a judgement, an opinion, an image of what we are going to find. I know I do, often. It is inspiring me today to be open to what is going to unfold, and to see what is there to be seen.

     1. As things unfold we will often ‘see’ that some things which we thought we had to attend to, have already been taken care of and new doors have opened where hitherto there was only a wall.

146. We men have a word for not seeing the obvious, it’s a ‘Man Look’. Could this be an inherent resistance of delay, avoidance or even comfort? We are known to only notice that the cupboards were cleaned and organised when we can’t find something that has moved. Do we lie at times when asked if we noticed you had your haircut?

     1. Pertinent questions and best left to a man to answer, me feels.

147. I actually feel that we are seeing everything all of the time and that it’s because of that, that we know exactly what to turn a blind eye to.

     1. Agreed, we deny and bury it the instant it has been seen lest we rock our own boat. the cruise ship called comfort.

     2. Brilliant Alexis, this is so true and the cunning spirit that loves to play games and avoid responsibility is predominately running the show on earth and digging its heels in to avoid evolution.

        1. Avoiding evolution is the spirit’s raison d’être and without this stance, its days if not hours are numbered. And thus, it fights tooth and nails for its miserable survival.

148. Indeed – we receive the truth and turn it into seeing what we need to see, lest our comfort be disturbed.

149. We also hear what we want to hear, we feel what we want to feel, we taste what we want to taste.

     1. May I offer a slight correction here – we feel what we feel, we feel what is there to feel but then we turn around and quickly deny what we felt. Our clairsentience cannot be fooled as easily as our five physical senses.

     2. So true Christoph and also, we live in a world we want to live in, filled with chaos, disharmony, corruption and abuse.

150. The truth the heart knows is we are all equal there is no separation and judgment cannot exist, this is not how the world is like today. There is no reflection much of what is love in its truth. But if we allow ourselves to truly see that and feel, then we know this is our responsibility to live.

151. This has also reminded me of the deepening which is possible when reading and re-reading books by Serge Benhayon. You can re-read the same books, chapters, paragraphs or sentences and yet access more and more from them each time .

     1. There are many layers in these texts and everything is always available; how much we take up depends on how much physical and emotional baggage we have shed, how honest we can be, how much responsibility we are wiling to take and how willing to evolve we are. The books are there and do their work, regardless of our choices.

152. This blog is so well titled as it is true that we see what we want to see – in fact we can fool ourselves to see what we want to see when it suits us. This is in fact quite confronting when we allow the honesty to say this because we can then ask how much of truth are we really prepared to see?

     1. How much truth are we willing to see? Only as much as our level of responsibility lets us see because otherwise, why see the truth? What is its purpose? Surely not for entertainment, out of curiosity or ‘to pass the time’. You have brought up a pertinent point here.

     2. Great point Henrietta, and this also depends on how much we are willing to evolve and expose the illusion that currently runs humanity.

153. Our bodies are amazing. Recently a fluttering in my right eye has developed and it comes when I am not seeing clearly what needs to be seen. It is a wonderful nudge for me to go deeper where the truth is sitting waiting for me.

154. Reading this does bring up the questions – what would life be like without our filters and would we be more willing to see things from another person’s perspective? Would we get to see life in full and accept what we see?

     1. Great question Julie and what different choices would we make in life?

155. This blog reminds me of how often I have gone charging off in one direction with a picture or idea in mind of how things need to be without staying surrendered to the possibilities of how things actually are and therefore miss the crucial observations that would support me to have true clarity.

     1. So true – we come with an agenda and approach people, situations and life in general such that we cannot see the tree for the woods at times.

     2. I have done this many times Andrew so I can relate to what you’ve shared and learning a different approach that allows more clarity and steadiness means fewer complications and mistakes occur.

156. We see what we want to see everywhere and all of the time.. with our choices, our health and relationships, and so on. Sometimes even when we can see that we’re not making great choices, we still avoid seeing in full the consequences of these, until they are so glaringly obvious they are impossible to ignore. If we choose not to see, sooner or later we have to deal with the consequences of that choice, not as a punishment but as an opportunity to learn how to make choices that are loving.

157. We skim over life but then expect that it should feel deep and rich. We might find that if we bring more presence, stillness and care that we will find there is great treasure waiting there.

     1. True, nothing is ever mundane or boring when we bring these qualities to how we live life – presence, stillness and care.

        1. Yes, then actions become joyful.

     2. This is so true Joseph and very wise; how often do we say we are giving it our all and then complain when things aren’t working out. But what we are not paying attention to is the energy we have used to give our all in the first place.

158. “Does the surgical procedure of the removal of the cataracts from my eyes offer a remarkable clearing and healing opportunity, not just on a physical level, but an opportunity to heal old ways of seeing life and people that have not been true and whole.” I wonder how many people that have had cataract operations ponder so deeply on their life as you have done Roberta, and appreciate the wonderful gift of true sight, and the amazing clarity you are now being offered that goes beyond the visual aspect of life.

159. Wow, this reveals that our eyes can be blinded from the truth when we are aligned to an energy that only allows us to see what it wants us to see.

     1. Exactly and this is the reason why we can’t truly convince anyone or get them around to our point of view; it is impossible. They might outwardly comply but they will see and think according to what they have aligned to. And this is true for all of us.

     2. So, when we are all aligned to the light of our Soul, we will all be living with a truth that unites us all. This shows that the way of facilitating harmony among people is to support every single person to return to the awareness of as well as living and expressing our true inner essence.

160. Spot on Ariana, or we could say we don’t see what we refuse to see by playing the ostrich and burying our heads in the sand – for nothing changes on the outside but only that we no longer have allowed ourselves to see what was there to be seen in the first place. So who is the fool now? We are the only ones that fool ourselves through the tool of denying or limiting the use of the very senses we have been gifted with.

161. When I focused on the text looking for the typo my eyes actually felt strained and it was not till I let go and just let myself see without an agenda, that I felt more clear in my vision! Thank you Gabriele for this awesome example.

     1. Good point. Switching into a mode of just receiving can reveal a lot to our conscious awareness.

     2. I agree Henrietta, this blog is a brilliant example of how we see what we want to see. I am now so much more aware of when I do this and I realise that a narrow way of viewing the world with blinkers on causes many complications, confusion, and separation.

162. When we use our eyes to receive then we see and feel something very different to when we use our eyes to see what we want to see.

163. ‘We see what we want to see’ which is shaped by our beliefs and perception – could there be something therefore that we are missing which is right in front of our eyes?

164. Having an eye condition is no different than any illness in the body. The other day an Esoteric Practitioner was talking to me about being seen, and instantly my own eyes went out of focus, and I couldn’t see her clearly. It was obvious to me that there is more to look at here as to my relationship with the world and what we are willing to see and accept.

165. Great reminder of how far we have strayed from true sight, especially with phrases such as, “seeing is believing”. One could hardly get it more wrong and that makes me wonder whether it should be, “feeling is believing?” But even that steers us in the wrong direction – what is there to believe when we can clearly and unmistakably feel it? I do not have to believe in the Sun, for example. I thus propose a new turn of phrase, “feeling is knowing”.

     1. I endorse your new turn of phrase for when we practise it we will see clearly.

166. When we learn to ‘see’ energy first, before we see what is physically in front of us, life becomes very clear. There is little chance then of missing or misreading what is really there for us to see.

167. A beautiful sharing and understanding of true sight and how we can develop it and the difference it makes to life and everything including the small print and spelling mistakes of what we don’t truly want to see.

168. Indeed we often do not want to be exposed too the many pictures and beliefs we are invested in, hence our limited eyesight.

169. When we can be deceived by our own mind in this way, it just goes to show the importance of discerning the influences from outside of us and the effect they are having on our perception of life.

170. We use our hearing in a very similar way as our eyes, sometimes we hear only what we want to hear and we rely so much on our senses to communicate life to us. But what if our senses have been polluted, as in we filter out what we do not want to receive through the consciousness we align to?

171. This highlights for me how much we can put blinkers on ourself when coming at life or a situation with a set expectation or picture of how we think things are going to be.

     1. And this is why it can be very difficult to convince someone to see the truth because when they have their blinkers on no-one can take them off for them except for themselves. Truth cannot be imposed on people anyway and it is through love and giving people space that supports us to see the truth of what is around us.

        1. We can’t really convince anyone – the reservation remains even if they don’t show it openly and concur or agree. For the same reason, there is no such thing as brainwashing; we might physically be able to force another into submission, but nobody can change the way we see things unless we, by our own choice, align otherwise.

172. Very true Elizabeth – we become so focussed on waht we want or need we miss out on the whole picture.

173. I love that, so often we can comolicate things yet the very thing is staring us right in the eyes, right from the start! We can go searching but when we allow it is already there waiting for us. The question is not so much what do we see, as we see everything, but what are we allowing ourselves to receive unfiltered from what our eyes are seeing?

174. I had a man look moment, at work the other day. There is a requirement for commercial businesses to periodically have their electrical supplies tested and have a new list of everything in the switchboard put in every panel. My building has eight staircases, ten stories high with over 300 panels. The last two weeks we have been putting the new sheets in the panels. Some of the location descriptions on the sheets were a bit vague; like wrong room numbers or wrong floor. On the roof, we have ten elevator motor rooms that have panels hidden inside of other panels. I had been in one of these rooms four times looking for one board but could not see what I was looking for. I kept looking at the other panels in the room to ensure the new sheet in them was correct, and completely missed one on the wall in front of me as you walked in the room.

     1. That’s just what happens when we look and look and look, rather than receive what is there.

175. Very often I have criticised someone in my life for not being able to see something about me, which I am now realising is like criticising someone in a wheelchair for not being able to walk.

176. Wow Gabriele, I read that sentence twice and couldn’t spot the typo until you pointed it out. It amazes me how true it is that sometimes our eyes see what we want to see and not the truth of what is presented. This is a brilliant blog.

177. Our eyes cannot see everything that our heart can feel.

     1. I feel this is only the case when we disconnect our eyes from our heart because our vision can be very powerful when using it as an extension of our heart.

178. It’s that constant reminder that we do not look with our eyes, but receive. With this we start to see things in a different way, we start to see more because in receiving we are more open to what is there.

179. This really proves that the majority of our lives are spent making our pre-conceived pictures fit what we see, rather than allowing the image before us to do all the talking.

     1. So true – imagine what we could receive if we were truly open to all that is offered.

        1. We couldn’t handle it and thus, the uptake is staged as to the level of responsibility we are willing and prepared to take.

     2. How much energy and effort do we spend pounding square pegs into round holes?

        1. Haha, it’s a full-time occupation methinks, pending square pegs into round holes. But we don’t seem to lose our enthusiasm for the sport. I wonder why?

180. Could it be as simple as “I am looking for xyz. I can’t see it. Perhaps it is not there so I shall just receive what is there”?

181. It strikes me just how often we walk into a room or scenario with an already preconceived idea of what is taking place, e.g. in an argument where we assume a certain person has ‘gone at it’ again. You’ve used a brilliant example of searching for an incorrect ‘r’ and missing what was otherwise there to be corrected, and it’s true that we will always be blind while we are seeing only what we want to see.

182. This example, how the focus on looking for an out of place ‘r’ went together with an inability to see the actual out of place letter, reminds me of the phrase “can’t see the wood for the trees” when our focus on an objective we have decided is the important thing, results in our inability to be aware of and respond to the bigger whole.

     1. I was so focused on looking for the ‘r’ that I didn’t see the typo and what you shared is so true. With narrow vision, we miss out on seeing the bigger whole and therefore may even be oblivious to that is right in front of our eyes.

183. ‘In other words: while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.’ – Very true Gabriele, we won’t see the whole truth until we make a choice to do so, what we don’t want to see is the investment in the illusion that we have all been living in, hence the pride, resistance and denial.

184. It is amazing how blind we can be to something that is right in front of our eyes. To me this shows the blinkered mental cage you talk about Gabriele. Staying open and have a willingness to see that we have blinkers on is the first step, and gradually our eyes begin to see so much more than we ever thought possible.

185. ”The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.” ~Serge Benhayon

     These words stop me in my tracks for they greatly reveal the fact that we as humans living in this particular plane of life can become so totally and utterly addicted to complication we cannot (will not) see that there is another way. It is not difficult to live simply by the impulses of the Soul, it is difficult to accept that we can because it means we have to let go of the complication we are so desperately identified by.

     1. Yes, and let go of the struggle/victory game that accompanies that complication.

186. This just goes to show how many filters we put on the information we recieve via our five senses. Just learning to recognise the filters and start taking them down is a huge evolution for us, one that brings a remarkable shift in the quality of our lives and in understanding who we are.

     1. So true Rowen, and these filters are put on by us and therefore we can take them off at any time and we have gotten so used to them, we think that these filters are a part of us.

187. What I love about this is how the actual quote you were working on is so pertinent to the issue that then came up: we create problems when we ignore the simplicity of what we can feel and see, and make things more complicated by trying to find things that aren’t actually there! We are masters of creating our own issues- just as we are masters of resolving them, and not even having or creating them in the first place.

     1. Very true – we create problems and issues, we find a solution and then pat ourselves on the back for having resolved what we initially created. It is crazy, looked at in this light but we keep on doing it. Recognition is like a drug and it requires dedication and commitment to kick it.

        1. Yes..craving recognition from others is one thing but recognition from ourselves – self congratulating for having got ourselves out of our own mess – is another, albeit on the same spectrum.. the antidote to both I feel is building a connection with the body where we begin to deeply love that feeling of steady contentment far more than the rollercoaster highs and lows of self-created struggle.

     2. The list of other rods we create for our own back is extensive and never ending when we stop listing to our body.

188. The quote “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.” is already saying so much. For years I lived in complexity and struggle and that was all I saw life could be, but now I start to see how simple life is when I listen to my body.

     1. Struggle and getting through it always serve to elicit recognition from another/others and that is why we like to identify with complexity – it serves what we have wilfully and unnecessarily created.

        1. This is such a great point, I can see how we strip life of absolute joy when we throw in the mix of complexity, struggle and recognition.

189. We can observe how selective our vision is and what a set up it can be to stop us seeing what is really happening.

     1. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to be judgemental when we only rely on our vision? Whereas when we use our hearts to see we get to receive more than what our eyes can pick up.

190. Blindness to everything that is available can’t be but the end result of a blinkered and very linear approach to looking for what we think we need. No wonder there are so many eye problems and already starting with the very young.

191. The lengths to which we will lie to ourselves to not face what we do not want to see is staggering.

     1. We even use truths to support our lies! We put on a blanket because it will keep us warm, rather than shutting the door that is wide open.

     2. It sure is staggering and unbelievable at times what thoughts we let in to counter what we see, know and feel.

        1. Yes, we do indeed – the other day I felt an SMS that had come in was hard and abrupt but I looked at the first few words and immediately went into the comfort of, “oh no, I got it wrong; these words are quite friendly”. Needless to say, once I read the whole text and got to the second paragraph, a whole different picture unfolded and the energy was indeed hard, ungiving and judgmental – exactly what I had originally felt from my body and what I had seen at a glance with my eyes.

        2. Mmm it really is energy 1st we just need to trust and honour what we are sensing then everything makes sense and becomes a lot more understandable.

192. I can find it a real challenge when what I thought I saw was never there in the first place. So it begs the question how do we know truth when we see it? And my body answers ‘with every cell within me, not just a select few’.

193. This is a brilliant blog and needs much pondering and playing with. It explains so much about how we stay trapped in the circulation of our lives. Or you could ask….r you seeing y?!

     1. Are we seeing what is there to see rather than looking for what we need to be there? One kept us stuck in time, the other expands us into space. It is all a matter of movement.

     2. Ha ha very playful Otto and great point. My experience was by searching for the ‘r’ I totally missed out on seeing the ‘y’. This example applies to life, when I was searching for answers to life, I was missing out on the truth but once I stopped searching, life simply unfolded and I discovered that all the answers were right there all along.

194. Reminds me of the supremacy of Evidence Based Medicine. Designed, engineered, financed and executed to only see what its wants to see.

     1. Exactly – all of sponsored science and research is but a re-searching with the same set of eyes and binoculars of what has already been predestined from the outset.

        1. Even those research projects that pertain to be completely open to whatever there is to be seen, that are set up to look at every single possible angle are only going to see a limited view. As soon as we ‘look’ then our vision is selective. You can feel it even in the word, ‘look’, it has a force to it, a push, an expectation and its success is entirely based on the external and will always be a regurgitation of creation. As you say, we need to change the eyes before we even start ‘looking’. what you are opening up here Gabriele is powerful and game-changing stuff.

        2. There is qualitative research whose explicit aim is to look at what is there so that it can then be researched quantitatively because the latter allows setting up trials and statistical proofs to see what works. Sometimes it may be worthwhile to expand this qualitative approach to just receive what is there rather than for a numerical purpose?

        3. Everything being energy before it manifests physically means that the presence of the observer influences the experiment, the research. And some things, especially plants and animals, conform with what it is we think we need to find. They allow us to get lost in the jungle of how we need things to be until we are ready to receive, see and recognise that there is a whole wide world beyond our blinkers.

     2. What have adults told children for generations: do it because I said so. Is this not the same as very expensive, evidence created lies?

        1. Sometimes it’s even less than that! the “why”…..justified by one word….”because”. Hardly what inspires a child to feel and follow their own truth.

195. I have been astounded recently just how much little judgements about things that happen in my day creep in all the time! And it is these judgements that lead to me reacting to life rather than simply observing what is happening without judgement and responding as needed…big difference!

     1. Well said Andrew. In fact so blinkering is judgement that we should be issued with a white cane when we go into judgement. It completely narrows our view down to a microscopic sliver.

     2. The judgement comes from the movements made before. So how you are before you meet someone, hear something or see something will determine the outcome, response, reaction. It is our responsibility to see and learn this and carry that awareness for that is what will support us to learn to truly observe.

        1. Well said Otto. Our ability to respond to life and not react to it is our greatest response-ability.

196. Reading this has made me want to listen to the whole sermon “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” (Serge Benhayon). The depth, width and breath of what Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine offer the whole time is astounding. In just reading one sentence a powerful healing and learning can always be felt.

197. How often when we are looking for something, we find in plain sight, something in the past you were looking for and could not see it?

198. We see what we expect to see. Many times I expected to see something that I didn’t want to see but I expected it to be there.

     1. Is that a kind of anticipatory anxiety taking over that then stops us from seeing that everything is as it needs to be in God’s body?

199. This is so true Gabriele – we do choose to see what we want to see, so as not to ruffle our comfort zones.

200. i love when I share issues or problems with people I trust around me, because from others we can gain perspectives and understandings about life that we ourselves often cannot see because we are too involved. It is a call to all of us to be that steady and trustworthy person in the lives of people around us so we can all support each other

     1. Yes this is super valuable and necessary – to have other people around us to share and bounce off and challenge us when needed so that we don’t get caught up in our own stuff and preconceived ideas about how things should be. We are not designed to do life on our own.

        1. So true Andrew and very exposing of the practise of sitting, meditating in solitude for hours, weeks, years. Easy to find a comfortable settlement if there is no-one reflecting your choices back at you!

        2. Very true Andrew we are here to work and learn together, I know for myself the moment i cut myself off and think I can do this alone or anything like that I am completely gone and usually find myself run down and exhausted at the end. Whereas when I work with others I get to see things more clearly and what is produced is almost effortless without all the need and trying to get it right.

        3. And it is amazing to listen to the problems of others and see them from the outside and the simplicity in them, which can then be an inspiration for how we approach our own troubles

        4. Yes and may I add a little ‘if only’ – it’s astounding how stuck and blind we can be, and are around our own ‘stuff’ and yet, another’s ‘stuff’ is so transparent and simple to address.

     2. I agree – it can sometimes feel hard to open up and trust but sometimes it is only when someone else sheds a different angle of light on a problem that we can unlock something that as you say, is our own blind spot

201. I love how the answer to this conundrum is simplicity, we can begin by being aware of what we don’t see or what we want to see. If, as Serge Benhayon says, there is alway a display of what the eyes are pitched to experience, we already have a bias, but knowing that, we can look outside the blinkers.

202. A colleague of mine recently handed me a handful of cash for me to count before putting it in the till. She said ‘it should be £125’. I counted it and counted £125. When I gave it back to her we both realised that it was actually £130 and both of us had mistaken the £10 note for a £5 note. I could have sworn that I saw a £5 note. I had been told what to expect and therefore I saw what I was told to see. A real lesson in taking the time to see for myself.

     1. We are so very obedient, aren’t we? We see what we are told to see and mainly, that’s it. No questions asked, no comfort rocked, no feathers ruffled.

203. ‘We see what we want to see…’ and that is born out of a chosen ignorance that is actually very arrogant.

204. So skewed is our perception, and so stubborn is our lack of willingness to change it that even if truth was to stab us in the eye we will pretend like we didn’t see it.

205. I can see why this blog has been published under ‘Medicine and Serge Benhayon’ as on deeper reading the way we ‘see life’ is either conducive to our health or it is restricting and therefore diminishing of it.

     1. Indeed, a very deliberate move as it demonstrates how we misuse our five physical senses and in this instance, force our eyes to look past something that is there to receive. No wonder we have so many eye problems, starting with the young. We do not use our eyes correctly and the way they were designed to be used, i.e. to receive what is there after we have felt what is there to be felt.

        1. “We do not use our eyes correctly and the way they were designed to be used, i.e. to receive what is there after we have felt what is there to be felt.” I was in a Universal Medicine presentation this year where a lady, who we would classify as blind, shared that if someone said to her they could restore her sight she would not want to have it back, she treasured dearly exactly what you share – all that she could feel and sense first and foremost.

        2. Which might just be the reason why she is blind – to treasure, live and appreciate the fact that we feel everything long before our five physical senses either confirm or wilfully contradict what we have so clearly felt.

        3. And I can see how we can do exactly the same with the other physical senses – each one capable of being over-ridden by our love of creation and thus missing out on the true communication of heaven.

206. What we’re prepared to see is far, far less than what we’re not prepared to see. Yet.

     1. Correct – and the more responsibility we are willing to take, the more we can and will see. It is not about eyesight as such, but our willingness and readiness to receive what is there, in full.

        1. Your words should be on a fridge magnet and displayed in one of the most important places in our homes for placing information we occasionally need a gentle reminder.

     2. That is an interesting point Alexis and opens our eyes up to knowing there is far more going on that what we 1st see. Are we purely using our eyes projecting out or are we allowing ourselves to receive unfiltered what our eyes are sensing?

207. Recently, I chose to see more and did not like all that I saw. It was painful because I had to be responsible for my part, there was no other way. And so I sat with this and allowed it to be, I allowed myself to feel sad about what I could see, and to know that what I was seeing was a result of past choices or movements through life, all that was around me was a momentary view on a life that is constantly changing because we are all constantly moving. And as such, we can change our movements to alter the path before us, having seen where we have been and the results of this, we can plan the path ahead to include more love if we wish it so.

     1. Which proves that we see what is there to see once we are willing to take responsibility for our part in the way the world is.

208. Our eyes receive, but receiving is a choice, not a given.

209. Reading this reminded me of an old email I used to have but had to create a new one because no one could see the ‘r’ in the middle of my name and all my emails were going to a lady in Canada with the same name. It did give me the opportunity to email back and forth to this other Julie Matson, and she was gracious enough to send on my emails, but ultimately I couldn’t leave it to chance that something important would get passed on to another or I would not receive something I was waiting for.

210. Thank you, Gabriele, for the reminder that we can feel absolutely everything playing out energetically in each moment when we let go of merely seeing the physical form, as this dumbs down our stupendous all-knowing nature and ever expanding awareness.

211. It just goes to show when we are in pursuit of something how our vision narrows and we are not able to see the all or bigger picture.

     1. Perhaps because we don’t want to or we are in the habit of not simply receiving but making assumptions and then looking?

     2. Agreed Vicky, what if we were open to see each moment as new, in every moment being aware of what is there not what we want to be there.

212. “We use our eyes to feed the illusion that we are right and others are wrong” and hence why we see the huge social media companies gain much ‘success’ and business from our behaviours.

213. When we expend energy to prove what we think is right and only verify it with what we see, have we lost the premise of the original question?

214. What we’re willing to see is as narrow as the view out of a castle’s arrow-slit.

215. Most of what we see is pure illusion, which will one day vanish like a puff of smoke.

216. “We see what we want to see..” This is so true… and yet when we remove the filter of our hurts, ideals & beliefs, that we look out from, there is so much more to be seen. Only then is our vision truly 20/20.

217. It’s beautiful that we are surrounded by people in our lives who are able to see different angles of life and sometimes spot the ‘r’ or the ‘y’ that we are overlooking, or choosing not to see.

     1. Very true Susie and i’m Coming to appreciate more and more the reflections we are offered by other people specifically when we need them and conversely that we may be offering to them too.

     2. So true Susie. What a joy it is when we all lovingly offer another perspective, it helps us see past our blind spots.

218. A beautiful blog that says so much about what we see and want to see and that ‘while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.” The blinkers are off takes love connection and the willingness to see truth.

219. ‘..but what really happens is that we have actually seen it and everything with and around it but have just as quickly dismissed what does not fit the picture of what we are expecting to find.” This is of great importance. As what we choose to not see is then filled in by us. Just as I was reading ‘they’ as ‘the’ the pursuit of the R has made me decide that everything else was just fine and only the R was the problem. If we take this to the same big picture of what your blog is showing it is a great explanation to how we have become so blind to the enormous scale of problems we have in this world.

220. ‘we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.’ The whole world is set up for us to learn from and so eventually we all will. The words ‘in our own time’ are particularly relevant to help us stop judging our fellow brothers, because we have all delayed our evolution back to Soul and we all have to make our own choices by free will and understanding.

221. We are very good at checking the functionality of our eyes with eye tests, testing how well we can see letters on a board or car number plates, but so far we have not incorporated into the test any measure of how accurately we observe what we can see.

222. How often in life do we see what we want to see? I used to think other people had the wrong view on things but it soon became clear that it was not about other people or me, it was that neither of us were wanting to see the actual truth and instead both had our own versions of events. How much simpler would life be if we all were willing to see the full truth of everything, not just what the eyes may show us (although even that would be a great start) but what is behind the activity of what we witness.

     1. Yes, a good dose of reality might just be very healing for us all.

     2. The more we feel the more we feel – and the more we see, the more we see.

223. “In other words: while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time” – absolutely so true Gabriele about “in our own time”; we cannot force through our own pictures a person to see what they are not ready, open or wiling to see because each of us only see what we want to see in accordance to our own evolutionary path that is completely personal.

224. We can’t see the forest through the trees is an old saying, meaning we can get too involved in the details and forget the problem. The US and many other countries, still have fire watch towers to look for smoke in vast national forests. Would this fit the saying of losing the forest whilst looking for a smoke?

225. Beautiful how these everyday observations bring focus to and confirm what we have always known for a long time.

226. Such a wonderfully clear example of how our focus can blind us to what is there. I have recently felt the consequences of doing this myself – only hearing words and not feeling the full picture because it didn’t suit me.

227. Yes we see life as an indurance struggle instead of the joyful return to simplicity it truly is. A great example of how our lenses have got fogged up.

228. This is a great blog. I have had the same experience with other senses – mishearing people, misinterpreting feelings and more because I didn’t expect to be there what was actually there.

     1. In which case we opt for confirmation bias – hearing what we want to hear, seeing what we want and need to see; having it our way no matter what, in other words.

        1. Thank you for the new definition Gabriele – Confirmation Bias. It adds to the commonly used term ‘selective hearing’, which is often used in jest, by naming exactly what is going on: that we are often only prepared to see, hear and feel only what we are prepared to see, hear and feel according to the pictures, ideas and beliefs that keep us seemingly safe, in a world built from those selected false bricks and consequently avoiding the love that we are.

        2. And, may I add, not just avoiding the love we are but the spaciousness that is available and in the end, also trying to avoid our evolution. The latter doesn’t truly work as we all evolve but it certainly makes the journey more arduous – which in turn provides a point of identification and definition.

        3. Ah yes I know how I have loved feeling identification in the struggle – how we love to be identified. Learning to accept the space and drop the many ways of identification brings truth back into our everyday lives.

229. Its amazing how looking for something totally cuts out everything else. We really can convince ourselves of things that are not there or that things are not there when they are

230. Once we start to ask why we do not want to see all there is, we start to open our eyes once again.

     1. There can be such a stubborn holding onto, ‘of not wanting to see’ even when we say that we do want to be more aware, I am aware of how selective and choosy I am about what I let myself see. The filters we put in front of us are blinding.

        1. Yes, no matter the amplitude of our declaration to want to feel and see more, we cannot and will not until we are willing and able to take responsibility for what we sense and see. Otherwise, why would we want to see and feel more than the utterly superficial? Out of curiosity? Hardly.

231. I love the simplicity which which you expose how our narrow mindedness actually impairs our vision. It is a great way to reveal how we get to have such differences in our world today.

     1. True, it brings understanding to why we cannot brainwash, convince or win over anyone, in truth. On the surface, someone might agree but it really only is to get others/another off their back, even if temporarily.

232. I love this blog Gabriele and like you I went searching for the ‘r’ and just read ‘the’ when it clearly spelled ‘they’……very revealing indeed.

     1. Me too Carolien, which just goes to show how we can lead one another off track by suggestion, rule or legislation. The absolute importance then of responding to life by being aware of what we feel.

        1. Yes it made me ponder a while after reading this blog as it shows how we can be set so easily on a wild goose hunt simply by being asked a question that is suggestive or leading. Whether it is a question asked of us, or something we are asking of ourselves. And are not most questions just that? The moment I think I know what I should do, or how it should look like, I have already narrowed my vision. To come back to ourselves and be completely open and not guided in anyway is the only way to see clearly.

     2. Me too. Never saw the ‘the’ – a precise reflection of how often my awareness is hugely selective.

233. We depend upon sight as our cast iron alibi and ignore the much greater wisdom that we can feel when our body is allowed to lead the way.

234. I have learned a lovely way to check our alignment: if it feels complicated it is likely to have come from our Spirit whereas the Soul’s way is very simple.

     1. So true – I could have caught on much earlier that something was fishy!

235. These words simply cut through any construct of complexity and complication: “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.” – not trying to solve the problem but recognizing the problem as the unnecessary construction of a complexity.

     1. Yes, to just receive and being honest about what we receive. Then we can have understanding.

236. “… then we will start to develop true sight, which comes second and confirms the knowing of our inner-heart…” To live from our inner-hearts first and foremost, which allow the flow of the wisdom of the universe through, and then we get to truly see what is before us.

237. The more I sit with this article, the more the truth of what it is presenting becomes so clear. And what I can see is how in as much as we can choose what we are willing to see, this means that also we can choose to see it all – everything. To be not blind to the facts and the realities of life, of our own behaviours and wisdoms. To choose to see all that is magnificent about ourselves and each other, about true beauty and nature. We can want to see all that we all are and all that we choose not to be aware of. And they key to this is in non-judgement. So that what is seen is done so with grace and understanding – both the gloriousness of our true selves and the not so glorious ways that we all behave.

     1. Another key is responsibility – we can only choose to see what we are willing to take responsibility for because: what would be the purpose of seeing all if we are not willing or able yet to take responsibility for same?

238. I find it totally crazy that sometimes I can’t see something that is staring me right in the face, I have particular trouble finding my baster which I use quite a lot as there is just something about it that makes it invisible to me most of the time, maybe its colour I just don’t know.

     1. Don’t know the answer to this one – maybe it is no longer needed and something you are attached to?

239. I watched a video yesterday that expressed this well. A woman had lived alone in a large four bed house, then one day felt the futility of it all and unnecessary complication she had brought into her life: high mortgage, bills, maintenance etc. She downsized first into a studio, then small apartment and discovered she could live, be more and content with less.

240. It’s so interesting how we can be so convinced about what we think we see, when in fact we are not always seeing with absolute clarity what is actually in front of us. But when we use our sense of feeling there is no denying what is there to be felt.

     1. That conviction can be so stubborn! We can be absolutely determined to see things in a very controlling way to protect our individuality, digging in our heels determined to keep the blinkers on.

     2. There is no denying of what can be felt which is then confirmed via our sight, and not the other way around.

     3. Yes, we feel something and then we see something that seems to contradict what we originally felt and we breathe a sigh of relief; only to realise later that what we felt initially was spot on and that the way we use our eyes deceived us, yet again.

     4. Indeed Jane. For most of us I imagine this happens more than we care to realise. But to start trusting that what we feel is true and acting on that, is a great step towards re connecting to and living from the great depth and breadth of divine inner wisdom that we all have access to.

241. “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” When we really get this, it will fundamentally change our understanding of our perceptions and experiences as an individual. Are we just TV sets receiving images from some invisible broadcasting centre somewhere in the 4th dimension, or are we amplifiers for the love of our 5th dimensional Soul?

242. This simple example shows how misled or blinded we are when we believe what we are told – ie what is ‘normal’ or ‘right’, rather than being open to more truly seeing beyond that accepted comfort.

243. From my experience I have never seen what someone else has wanted me to see it was not until I was ready to truly see what was there to be seen, the truth.

244. It suits us to be ignorantly blind to life as it feeds our illusion and thus lie of individuality. Take it grander and you immediately start to see that there is no room for self at the expense of any other. And this is a responsibility we seek to avoid.

245. We ‘see’ with much more than our eyes because our body is an amazing sensing instrument. I notice that when I wear my glasses, which I do all day as I am very short sighted, my eyes get tired because I am always trying to look through and focus on what is physically in front of me. When I am somewhere relaxed and don’t need to see so well, if I take my glasses off, there is a different sensation: I am not ‘trying’ to see anything and am feeling more. If someone is in front of me at the time, I pick up different things about them and not just their physical features.

     1. I can relate to what you say here Carmel. I feel much more with my glasses off, than on. Equally in life when we rely less on sight and more on other senses we feel more than what is visible to the eye.

     2. It’s great to allow ourselves a bit of blur when it is safe, i.e. at home and not force our eyes to be focussing and looking all the time. The eyeballs go quite hard from the continual strain that we put on them.

246. The fact it happens so quickly, it is so easy to miss and get caught in what we think we see. But there is choice to catch and see through the illusion that happens when we rely on our eyes seeing out. Our sense of feeling always gives us confirmation of what is true.

     1. Yes, Gill – we have preconditioned ourselves in a sophisticated way, but if we are open and willing to nominate that this is what we do, then it is much easier to catch it. Learning also to express what we are really feeling rather than dismissing it also supports us to be more clear about what is true.

247. It’s like we are walking around with sunglasses on with made up pictures printed on the lenses. Whilst we might be very convinced by their seeming reality – all we simply need to do is stop and take them off.

248. Thank you, Gabriele, for the simple but profoundly important reminder to feel and discern what is going on in our bodies first and foremost, so we don’t get duped by what appears to be in front of us or limit our vision to what we want to see.

249. How about the man look? We men have an ability not to see the obvious and that which was always in plain sight. Could this be a way to avoid something we were asked to do that did not fit our picture of what we had planned?

250. Sometimes it is easy to be swayed by our feelings and when we build a resistance to wayward-swaying energy then we can become Loving in our humble-appreciative-ness of being sensitive beings who do feel-much-more than we see.

251. Thank you Gabriele, for this gorgeous blog – an eye opener indeed! And one that was very timely for me today as I was seeing something that was not actually there to be seen with the eye of truth and reading what you have written has supported me to understand how this has worked.

     1. It happens in a split second, less than a split second and has become second nature, first nature probably – we tell our senses what it is they are to see, hear, smell, sense. We then become the prisoners of the way we have fashioned and moulded our senses to be.

252. Essentially what we see is governed by the energy that is running us. This energy then conditions us to see what it wants us to see, which more often than not is NOT the truth of the matter.

253. When the blindfold does eventually come off, we will realise that we have been living in what’s tantamount to the energetic equivalent of a small shoebox, so confined is our view of life.

     1. Reductionism at play – of course, it had never even occurred to me. Reduction and supremacy, very potent tools of the illusion that we are human only.

254. ‘while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.’ We can of course delay our awareness and many do, we can get distracted and dull our senses with food and other activities. It is only when we look back and see how far we have come that we can appreciate our evolution to date.

255. Our mind draws us a picture and our eyes are the palette that fills in the lines with the colours we desire!

256. An awesome sharing Gabrielle! “The key to any minor or major problem is
     to find the simplicity that has been ignored.
     Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367”
     Ive read many times and gotta put it on the wall. We certainly do see what we want to see. Responding to life with a focus on simplicity is an amazing thing that sets us free.

257. A blind man who is aware of what he feels sees more than everyone who chooses not to.

258. We are also renowned for hearing what we want to hear, so coupled with your example Gabriele, just goes to prove that our senses are not reliable conveyors truth if we have not connected in our inner knowing first and learnt to observe all of what we see, hear and feel and not just run with the bits that fit our agendas.

     1. Great point – we run with what fits our agenda, our pictures and images. And by doing that, we keep ourselves small and in fact, virtually blind to what is truly going on.

259. We definitely see whatever we want to see, and then complicate it all the more to make things into something they are not, and wonder why we get into such a muddle. Serge Benhayon’s quotes are always to the point, simplicity, which is often dismissed is so obviously the key.

260. ‘We use our eyes to feed the illusion that we are right and others are wrong, that our way is the right way, and even the only way, that we are separate from and different from other people, when in truth we are all one and the same.’ – Brilliantly said Gabriele – and to keep the illusion going we add stubbornness and pride… how willing are we to admit that we were ‘wrong’, even when deep down we know it?

261. ‘We use our eyes to feed the illusion that we are right and others are wrong, that our way is the right way, and even the only way, that we are separate from and different from other people, when in truth we are all one and the same.’ It is often the case that, when someone expresses a different opinion, that we go into judgement of who is right or wrong. There is only Truth.

262. It is interesting how we miss things when we focus on one part. The first time I read the blog I didn’t even really receive the quote – I was just looking for the error. But this time I simply read the quote and it brought me back to how powerful simplicity is rather than getting hooked on a missing letter.

     1. Well said HM, Gabiele’s example was classic and I think many of us fell for looking for the rogue ‘r’ when there was none to find…and in so missed the quote itself AND the extra ‘y’ that was the so called error. But our real error was the way we went about seeking what we did, as opposed to staying open and seeing it all. Amazing learning!

263. We see what we want to see and don’t see what we don’t want to see. It is so very worthwhile wanting to see what is true for in that life transforms in many glorious and unexpected ways.

264. Beautiful to be supported by someone who brings clarity and simplicity to a problem previously wrestled with. Confirmed beautifully in this quote

     “The key to any minor or major problem is
     to find the simplicity that has been ignored.”
     Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367

265. How very true – the images we receive are entirely dependent on the lens through which we look. The eyes alone are not an accurate portrayal of truth, thus why truth needs to be discerned with the ‘eyes of the heart’ so that what we see is in accord to what we feel and if not then we must remember that while our eyes can indeed play tricks on us, the inner heart never lies.

266. Or, are we shown something outside of us, to believe it, is real?

267. We see what we want to see, we hear what we want to hear.. we create our own reality on the extent to which we are prepared to be honest with ourselves, and others.

     1. How true Bryony – how honest are we truly prepared and willing to be?

     2. Being prepared to start looking at how much dishonesty I run with, it has been quite shocking to feel the extent of it. The beauty is that when we start to open up to correcting this the reflections can come thick and fast to learn from.

268. “…can we now see that we make them look for clues, information, material and especially confirmation of what we think we already know, are comfortable and familiar with and will even defend and fight for?” – This sentence alone explains the major problem with the approach of modern evidence-based science and medicine, for it shows how the result of experiments are directly correlated to the expected outcomes, and especially those that millions or even billions of dollars are riding on to substantiate in order for the funding and development of certain drugs or for continuation of a scientists grant money and notoriety.

269. We can have our blinkers on and it totally changes our perception of what we are seeing. For instance, have you ever read an email expecting the person on the other end to criticise or say you have done something wrong or haven’t understood, and then when you read the email it actually reads as if you are being criticised? Then a couple of days later when the reaction has died down you re-read the email and it reads differently without any judgments towards yourself and seems perfectly feasible.

270. This was really lovely to read. So lovely I had to re-read it a couple of times because of the wisdom within it ‘When we start to use our sight and other senses to respond to life, guided by what we feel, before and above all else, then we will start to develop true sight, which comes second and confirms the knowing of our inner-heart and the what is, the place where we are one’.

271. There is so much that we choose not to see and we don’t. One example is that as young children most of us could sense and often see evidence of something beyond the physical realm most adults accept and talk about. Many of us were scared of beings we called monsters and such. Yet since everyone simply ridicules this awareness, most of us chose to no longer be open to seeing at that level.

     1. I suspect that we do actually see all that we choose to not see but may not be aware of what we have seen. It is along the lines of how we feel everything but are not always aware of just how much we have felt. Therefore we are still affected by everything we see and feel but if we choose to not be aware of it we are affected by it in an adverse way. Being aware of all that we see and feel is the greatest liberation.

        1. Great point Nicola. We in effect receive it All anyway. But it is up to us whether we accept that awareness or not. We are choosing our own personalised blind spots!

272. We seek to control our senses rather than allow them to confirm what we already know from what we have felt.

273. Because we see what we want to see because of a preconceived picture we must miss out on so much in life that is so very important in moving us forward and it is even crazier that we have actually seen it but just not taken it in because of that picture.

     1. Great point – in focusing on understanding what we see and why we can still be missing all that is truly on offer.

274. There are two reasons in particular that I love this blog Gabriele, first of all this is the perfect example of how we see only that which we are looking for or want to see, and I, like many others couldn’t see the typo and was intent on finding the “r” and on realising the actual error I was blown away with how profound was this offering, it stopped me in my tracks and made me really consider what I choose to see or not to see….and then I read Serge’s beautiful quote, without the typo, and again was deeply touched by the depth of learning and understanding being offered.

     “The key to any minor or major problem is
     to find the simplicity that has been ignored.”
     Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367

     1. Well, on one hand I am glad I’m not the only one who got fooled by the apparently rogue ‘r’; on the other hand, it is really shocking how conditioned we are to compartmentalise, box in and narrow down everything; and I mean everything.

275. Our eyes are our windows to the world! So, why do we choose to view it through a straw?

     1. Why not open the curtains and let the light in?

        1. Are we so conditioned that we only open the curtains at night, to ensure we limit what we can see?

        2. Most people close the curtains at night not only literally but also by taking themselves to bed stuffed from food, drink, TV and the events of the day so that they zonk out and miss on the incredible healing and expansion that is on offer to us every night.

276. What we see is what we allow to be received energetically in the first place.

277. The traditional 5 senses cannot reveal the truth alone, as it has an energetic basis and therefore the truth of all things is felt through our whole body and our clairsentient innate nature.

278. Many of us undergo regular sight tests throughout our childhood and onwards as an adult, and it is usually a series of capital letters. Similar shapes like O and C can often be mistaken and it becomes a guessing game. We do that in life as well, we see something happening that we don’t understand and we make up stories that match our experiences of similar situations in order to feel that once we understand what’s going on, we can relax. But that may not be the truth. Having an open mind and allowing our senses to show us what is actually there, and feeling the energy, can mean we get a true picture and can respond accordingly.

279. Feeling life is the most important thing we can do, when we allow ourselves to feel always our next step is one made with honesty and clarity. See what we want to see and life becomes a tricky illusion.

     1. We can feel way further than we can see.

        1. And feel things, that cannot be seen!

        2. All the more reason to connect to the whole body. Sight one dimensional, feeling multi-dimensional..

        3. and just to add that often we don’t see what we are able to feel.

280. I’m not even sure that ‘want’ comes into it. ‘Want’ implies that we have some kind of choice in the matter but the truth is once we have aligned to a specific energy then all of our so called ‘choices’ are fed to us without consideration. What we ‘see’ or more accurately what we think we see is governed by the energy that we aligned to way back down the track, there is then no choosing, it is already pre-chosen.

281. It’s amazing how quickly we can, unconsciously even, reject anything that doesn’t fit the picture we want or expect to see, but also how we can change this through the way that we live and relate with everything and everyone in life and with that open up to seeing more clearly all that is truly there.

282. I am currently experimenting with walking through the streets by not always looking around me, but more so feeling what is around me first and then looking at people or things . That is a very interesting experiment, as the other way around is a much more familiar dynamic for me.

     1. Similarly not relying on my senses for me it’s hearing, but feeling into what is heard, what I hear is love much more than it sounds like.

        1. I love listening to the tone how someone speaks- it tells you so much about the other person. How much they are in their body or not, if they are playing small or big etc.. So much in little things get registered, if we are but open to it.

     2. What a great experiment… and no doubt you get to ‘see’ more … Our awareness is perhaps more fine tuned and sensitive than our sight.

     3. Interesting experiment. I will take that in my day. How often do I find myself being ‘taken’ by all the things there are to read around me on billboards or poster or people who pass by. The eyes are leading. When I am in nature I experience so much less ‘being outwards looking’ but more being invited to ‘go inwards’ and feel. Let’s see – even our language is all about ‘seeing’ – what I will experience when I follow your experiment.

        1. Please let me know how you go… It is so ingrained for me to look out, I have to call myself back over and over again. Letting go of the control that the looking out is tainted with is huge.

283. We see what we expect to see and can be gobsmacked when that really isn’t there.

284. As I am a person that reads a lot by observing, physically with sight, though I realised lately as follows: there is a difference in consciously looking with the eyes at another person for example, to receive whatever gets communicated that might offer more understanding or a greater response from me or to look out with an energy of control. Yes it is a great gift to be so sharp in sensing and seeing, but if it has in any way shape or form an alertness, “a looking out”, it is not connected to our body anymore and serves only as distraction to the body’s presence and power. There are these moments, when the other’s reaction is more important than your own feeling. The moment I am “checking” others with my eyes and giving them a kind of unnatural importance I know I am out of truly receiving with my eyes and everything I see is also limited through the agitation of my body.

285. We create our reality by how we are living in other words, by our choices and then we see the reality as a conformation of our reality. It is quite interesting if we look at it like that because how much is our reality that we see than the truth of what is there?

286. “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” (Serge Benhayon). It takes a great deal of honesty and commitment to truly let in that statement and then live by it.

287. Reducing life to what we can see and pick up with our other physical senses is one the most unintelligent choices humanity has been making for a long time. We are energetic beings and energetic dynamics have a far greater impact on all aspects of human life than we have been choosing to acknowledge.

288. It’s like we edit life with our eyes. This confirmation bias gives a lot to be considered about whether any research can actually be objective.

289. Great example of when we try to find something and have an idea of what it is we miss the simplicity of what is truly there to be seen.

290. This is such a great insight and shows so clearly our ‘confirmation bias’ and how as is so eloquently put here we use our vision as scaffolding to literally prop up our world ‘view’ and it’s all based on our preconceived ideas and beliefs, and this doesn’t change until such time that we feel first in our bodies and allow our sight to support those feelings. If we truly consider this it changes how we are in and with the world and people and cuts through and gives a greater understanding to where we and others are at. So going into my day it will be how much am I willing to see?

291. It is quite alarming when it is to clearly set out in this way, how easily we can miss things and be mistaken in what we see, and yet so much of life if not our whole reality be based on what we can see and rationally explain

     1. Agreed, life is lived by what we see and yet very few of us truly see what is there in front of us rather colour it to our needs. No wonder things can be so confusing.

        1. I agree – and this is where the teachings of Universal Medicine, especially around energy, have been such a support. Life when looked at without the understanding of energy is frustrating, inexplicable, hurtful and just plain painful – why is it like this, how could someone do or say that, why do I act like this, why can’t I change this behaviour? Opening up my perspective to include the possibility of energy in life, slowly changed the narrow focus of my observations and life took on more true colours, and I gained greater understanding and insight that allowed me to make sense of life rather than be at the mercy of it.

292. Why filter the truth and come to understand it in our ‘own time’ when we can have access to everything in an instant? All we have to do is be open to receiving what is being reflected in full.

293. Thank you for sharing your living proof that “we see what we what to see”. This exposes a lot.

294. Thanks, Ariana for this clarity. It doesn’t really get more simple than this.

295. Funny isn’t it how I spotted the true error straight away but then puzzled over where the ‘r’ was for ages, proving that even when I see the truth straight away, I don’t want to acknowledge what is simply there in front of me.

296. As long as we put our desires, investments and need for comfort first we will need to blind ourselves for the overwhelming presence of truth and love we are held in, hence why it is ignorance that must be chosen first before awareness can be reduced to a point whereby even a truth screaming into your face can be denied being the truth by the reductionistic view (pictures) that occupy the mind. But in fact, we cannot escape truth, we are just given the right and freedom to ignore it for a while by the grace that is God, for us to realize ourselves back into the truth we are, come from and return to and thereby embrace once and for all.

297. The quote was giving the solution for the typo and is showing us Occam’s razor in practice.

298. What if we didn’t just “see what we want to see” but we saw what there was to see in full? I think it would be a big wake up call, just to have everyone seeing the truth for one day. Would that be enough or just a bad nightmare we then choose to ignore?

     1. That seeing what there is to see in full is a process of receiving, simply receiving what is there and best coupled with honesty.

299. It would be fascinating to see how our view of the world changed, if we were all to lose our sight and hence have to rely on our feeling senses to ascertain what was going on and how to navigate our way through life.

300. There are psychology tests done by some people to define people’s personalities. You look at a picture and your response to a question reveals how you have chosen to see the picture. I am not sure this is a great way to define someone’s personality because that assumes that whatever is going on with the person is a long term and ingrained behaviour which it may not be. But it supports the fact that we tend to just see what we want to see.

301. I find it interesting to know that we are already ‘all-seeing’ and to accept that, knowing that we often dismiss what we see and feel, helps us to be more open to sensing more. Sometimes the messages in our body are very subtle but the more we pay attention to them the more we align and then it gets easier to respond. There is so much more to the world of energy than we currently know and our awareness is evolving all the time.

302. “… while we will all eventually see the whole truth, it is always by choice and, most importantly, in our own time.” We can so easily make assumptions that over ride the truth of what we are seeing and in the process do a lot of damage if we do not make space to see the truth, something that I am still learning to do everyday.

303. Our eyes have become such a distraction so that feeling energy first and fore-most has become a relic of the past. And seeing everything is energy and therefore because of energy to see first and not discerning by feeling is fraught with danger that can lead us down the garden path towards mayhem illness and disease.

     1. True, Greg. We rely on our eyes far more than the sense of feeling and continually get distracted by all the images before us. But through our self perceptions our eyes can see what they want to see and what we see can become distorted to the truth. Feeling energy first in everything enables everything to be known.

        1. This is also backed up by a blind student who feels and senses so much, which means we can all sense and feel so much more, when we are not allowing the wool to be pulled over our eyes.

     2. Could it be that when we diminish anything then our true amazing self is made to be lesser than the truly wise and Soul-full-being we are. So reconnecting to our full-ness allows all our senses to deepen in every aspect of our life.

304. This is indeed an eyeopener and the observation as such a huge step towards allowing yourself to see more.

305. I love the point of this blog. Our focus can be so narrow that we miss so much in life and only see what we expect to see.

306. I love re-reading this blog Gabriele – it exposes so much about how we are governed by our minds and cannot see outside the self-constructed box (cage) that we have purposefully built to keep us in separation from the truth.
     “”The perceived blinkered stubbornness or ignorance is a mental construct, a mental cage that has rendered the senses incapable of seeing what there is so obviously to see – in the eyes of those who don’t wear the same set of blinkers”.

307. This is a great invitation to observe and unpick the energetic filters that feed our daily sensory experience.

308. How much of what we see is also because we want to see it like having the old blinkered or tunnel vision conveniently missing what is often staring us right in the face.

309. ‘We see what we want to see …’ – so how then do we make ourselves to look at what we don´t want to see?

     1. When the focus is on seeing truth, what we haven’t wanted to see, then comes into vision. What we then do with that is our choice.

     2. By understanding the evil behind the images that tick the box of what we do want to see.

     3. I would say that we only cannot want to see what we already have clocked to be true and or has been exposed to not be true and thus challenges our desire, investment and comfort, hence the denial and ignorance – but truth then has already infiltrated us and does its loving work on and in us (that is the truth and love immanent are confirmed and thus activated) no matter how hard we try to ignore it. It then is only a matter of time before it breaks free and through the veils of illusion for us to become aware of what we have always known. We cannot delay or hold at bay love or truth as such but we can deny its expression and the awareness of it.

     4. With the support of our beautiful friends and relations who, very fortunately for our blind spots and us, constantly reflect different angles and so shine light on the areas we don’t want to look at.

310. And to ignore the fact that ‘we see what we want to see’ is the ultimate in irresponsibility, leaving no space for understanding, learning and growing.

311. It’s interesting how we only see what we want to see and how we can be oblivious to what’s occurring around us.

312. No truer words – we see what we want to see. And the antidote to that blinkered and controlled vision here by Gabriele “When we start to use our sight and other senses to respond to life, guided by what we feel, before and above all else, then we will start to develop true sight, which comes second and confirms the knowing of our inner-heart and the what is, the place where we are one.”

313. Gosh, we can be so stubborn about seeing what is in front of our noses! Speaking for myself, I have lived life with a constant filter, sifting through anything that was not convenient for me to look at, or anything that was hurtful that I could not handle. Working on my hurts has enabled me to look at the world with fresher eyes and see more than before.

314. ‘We then use the eyes to reject anything that does not fit the picture, does not fit in with what it is that we want, demand and absolutely need to see.’ Once we understand that what we see with our eyes is in fact very limited, we can open up ourselves to receive more.

315. I would imagine that allowing our eyes to see all they receive is quite a surrender.

316. On the WEB, you can view an object or even a location in 360 degrees as an example of what we can do. So, why in real life do we often choose to see, only one degree?

     1. With pin-point-accuracy. And we are satisfied with that narrowest of views even when we can see that the earth is not flat from outer space.

317. We also hear what we want to hear at times, overriding the very loud communication of our bodies and felt sense. Mainly because we do not want to take responsibility for the quality of energy we are living in.

318. I love that the quote that had the typo on it was perfectly matched to the experienced that you had. When we overlook simplicity, complication ensues.

319. This blog is profound and offers a total shift in our understanding of how our senses can either truly serve us or hold us in the illusion that we have hidden in for lifetimes.

320. A beautiful example of why our perceptions of something are all variable and we can so convince ourselves that our perception is the right one.

321. “We use our eyes to feed the illusion that we are right and others are wrong” – This is very true Gabriele, and in fact it is very easy to justify why we are ‘right’ by choosing to see things in a particular light, however in order to avoid the truth we must continuously ignore all of life’s other messages that are showing us a different reflection.

     1. It is interesting also how in the protection of our hurts, we will defend our ‘right’ from a stubborn intellect that simply won’t be swayed, rather than connect to the body and the truth we really do know.

     2. When we feed the illusion, are we choosing to live in the darkness?

322. “Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life, they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” (Serge Benhayon). This is a profound fact that we are as yet to really get the implications of. It shows how at different times our life we just can not get the validity of something, and yet a while later it can all be as clear as day light. But to me a hugely significant expose of this is the illusion in our arrogant thinking that what we observe with our senses is all that there is, and our erroneous supposition that if we have not observed something it does not exist.

323. We can rely on senses only if our willingness to use them to see beyond the physical is present. Without this willingness we are blindfolded walking through a forest.

324. ‘We use our eyes to feed the illusion that we are right and others are wrong, that our way is the right way, and even the only way, that we are separate from and different from other people, when in truth we are all one and the same.’ I have just been watching a film about how one culture took over an indigenous population and tried to assimilate them into their own culture by cruel abusive acts. The ‘we are right’ attitude is not brotherhood, we can learn a great deal by listening to each other and allowing true equality so that we work together for all of humanity regardless of the culture, religion or nationality.

325. I had to laugh as I couldn’t see the typo either as I was focused on finding the ‘r’. I know in my own life if I am thinking about something else while reading something I don’t retain anything I have read. And the more I am lead by how I feel through life my eyesight has become sharper to the point I don’t wear glasses now. The less I choose to feel, the worse my eyesight becomes.

326. “We use our eyes to pull ‘evidence’ in to support a past choice, no matter whether that choice is only a moment or years, even lifetimes ago…” This takes the simple function of having one eyes open, to a whole new level, as we may literally have the eyes open to see but are we actually ‘open’ to seeing exactly what’s there to be seen or do we lace or filter what is there to be seen by preconceived ideas?

327. What we are able to see is often dependent on our beliefs and when you consider that many beliefs are lies then you really get to understand why the world is in the chaotic mess that it is.

328. Seeing in isolation feeds my relationship with being right and wrong and this is the cycle of detachment from the whole that has no-one as right or wrong but all of us as learning on our way back to a unified truth.

     1. When you think about it, there can’t have been any right or wrong in the beginning because there was only One of us, and so there was no one else to either be right or wrong. So the whole notion of right and wrong, not only relies on the illusion of separation but perpetuates the illusion further.

329. I now, being my own experiment, so to speak that my body and perception has been changing over the years, I do not see things as I did 5 or 10 years ago, this is based very much on the changes I have made in life giving me a different sense of things.

     1. Same here .. when the veil of illusion is lifted and we are willing to see true truth everything changes.

330. Often we resort to blaming others for their wrongs when it could simply be we have not looked at ourselves and how we’ve contributed to a tension.

331. And thank you for the insight to our sight too Gabriele.. my eyes are duly opened in reading your education.

332. LOVE this blog Gabriele, I read that paragraph and did the exact same as you .. it showed how we can so easily get distracted or dogged when something is put to us [here to find the “r”] and from our distractedness which limits our sight the path we stray down as a result to end up way off course. Is like when we “fight” for “a cause” – we miss the very obvious point in what is not correct and hence needs correction.

333. If we go through life looking for a needle in a haystack, what do we see of life?

334. I wonder how much of life we miss because we don’t always see what is there to be seen, I mean what percentage do we actually see. I remember going to a cricket match once and there was so much going on in the crowd I missed most of the match and it was a whole day out.

335. There is a saying that goes along the lines of ‘Our eyes can be the doorway into our Soul’ and this is quite true particularly when we look out through our eyes from a depth of connection within our body. We then see so much more as compared to looking out from our eyes that are filtered with ideals and beliefs.

336. The way we live using our feeling creates space, it opens up and expands our own space within our particles, just feel this is so beautiful. We can accept much more than we think we can.

337. This is a big topic and one I feel I will need to keep looking at. How our sight is secondary to what we feel makes perfect sense, yet it calls for a turnaround of what we have taken as normal and how we have considered our sight in the past.

338. Gabriele, this is a great experience of not seeing but looking for confirmation and I have noticed that this can apply to every aspect of our life.

339. This explains how we as humans can be caught in trauma for so long, constantly perceiving threats in our everyday lives, as we are attuned to particular cues from the past.

340. We choose to see what we want to see so that we can stay in our old patterns that are only comfortable in their familiarity.. but keep us stagnant and unevolving. To truly see all that is before us, within and around us, we need to feel okay with feeling uncomfortable.

341. Expectations really do send us off in a direction that need not be followed. I found myself this morning getting a bit irritated but only because I had had an expectation of the situation, and found (once I’d caught it) that expectations and the subsequent reaction stop us from sharing a true connection and interaction.

342. What a beautiful example Gabriele of how 17 simple words can have us confused when we choose a preset wavelength, rather than tuning in ourselves!

343. Ever since reading this article, I have been getting more aware of how much I filter life according to my own agenda. And how this plays out through what I choose to see.

     1. When our awareness expands in this way, it is to be appreciated.

     2. True a sense of our own flavour, to suit what we want to see. Wise to look at how we do indeed filter life, even through our senses.

344. If we do not allow ourselves to be aware of what shapes our perception then we are also choosing to turn a blind eye to so much that keeps us separate.

345. What we want to see is very much governed by the quality we choose to live by. One quality opens our eyes up to the bigger picture and allows us to observe and detach from the complications of life, the other narrows our vision and reduces our perceptions. The nature of these choices cannot help but be reflected in the physical capacity and capability of our eyesight.

     1. I can see the quality of the way we live is the place to begin with the understanding of what you have shared here. We cannot even conceive of our vision being reduced if we are physically configured to see life in a particular way and not question it.

     2. There is a real relationship in the symbolism of the body and the choices we make. If I choose not to see the world and its ugliness or indeed, the abundance of love that is on offer there should be no surprise that my physical sight will be limited itself.

346. So true that we see what we ‘want’ to see. In fact what we ‘want’ to see is influenced by what energy we are aligning to at the moment. We have all had those moments that we are certain reality looks a particular way, but when something snaps us out of that particular stance, we end up being aware of so much more.

347. When we let go of our expectations and appreciate what is truly there then we can see how much constellates in our favour

     1. Absolutely Carmel. Everything even challenges and especially challenges is a gentle reminder to us that we are so so loved.

348. I haven’t wanted to see the ugliness of life, instead I created a perfect bubble to keep me in comfort and a certain lifestyle where I made sure that I was ok, (not to mention all the feel good films I relished in and could escape into). But with more awareness, and a greater settlement in myself I can feel that I am far more willing to see what is there right in front of my nose… my rose coloured specs are coming off!

     1. The willingness and ability to see Truth, all the parts of it, the ugliness and beauty—is an expansion of ourselves. The more space we feel within ourselves, the more we can accept, there is no difference—when we can accept more of the ugliness, we can also accept more of the grandness to eventually feel how much love is in the constellation of our lives.

349. Much like selective memory, selective vision is very much a thing. Our eyes are simply instruments, not capable of their own decisions and therefore are programmed. But what is the agenda of the programmer?

     1. One way to bypass the programmer is to go back and forth between honesty and just receiving with your eyes what is there.

350. Often the issue we are dealing with is so fundamental and under our nose it’s the last one we consider as a possible cause.

     1. We have given names for our filters: rose-tinted glasses, tunnel vision and blinkered for something that has become our normal.

351. It’s taken me a while to really realise just how much we see what we want to see and that what each person chooses to see is very different what their eyes are actually receiving. Yet the real question then is what is going on that makes us see things in different ways?

     1. It is quite fascinating David I agree. A simple example of this is how we can all look at the same colour yet call it different names. I might say green, another person calls it grey, someone else sees brown. It just proves that how subjective sight is but what I am beginning to fully appreciate is that insight comes from a unified Truth, which makes it all the more important that we connect to our insight first before relying on what we see with our eyes.

352. This is so true, Gabriele – ‘The term ‘confirmation bias’ describes our tendency, if not straightforward and linear urge, to favour ‘evidence’ and clues that fit our preconceived idea of what we deem is true, fervently need to be true, so that our picture of the world stays intact.’ If there is only so much that we are willing to see so that our comfort is secured, how will we ever evolve?

     1. Yes, I can so appreciate what you are sharing here. We have to consider our bias to wanting life to be or look a certain way. In fact, not just life but anything we are seeing, because if we don’t we are trapped in an echo chamber of our own making.

353. Why do we choose to live in a one-dimensional world by limiting what we see? Are not Gods meant to be all seeing?

354. To feel the world before seeing it is really something we do not learn from day one but as you so wonderful exposed Gabriele so much needed in our daily living.

355. The quote you’ve shared is so profound and it is relatable to everything Gabriele; a truth that can support in every aspect of life.

356. Thank you for sharing this. This made me smile as I was looking for an ‘r’ as well thinking gosh if you cannot see it I definitely will not be able to. But the actual words, I could feel the magic in them and read ‘they’ as ‘the’ as well. This reminds me of those puzzles where you look at a blur and a picture appears. Feeling the alchemy and magic in the words I simply read ‘they’ as ‘the’. You are right though in how ‘we only see what we want to see and don’t and can’t see what we don’t want to see’.

357. It just goes to prove that what we see is greatly affected by our own agendas, hence learning to observe life so we can see what is truly there is a critical skill that requires us to connect to our sixth sense first before engaging the other five.

358. If we want to see something for ourselves we will see it. And we will miss what is for the All that is right in front of us.

359. I am understanding the amazing distraction from truth that having pictures of any kind can be.

     Remaining open to what life presents is a huge step, that can relieve us of much suffering.

360. “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored. Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367” How delightfully amusing that this phrase which led to the insight shared in this blog, also in itself holds a perfect message about how we create issues when we choose to just see what we want to see.

361. When we focus on what we want to see we will never receive what is of truth, so are we ready to receive what we see and surrender to what is being offered?

362. Letting go of our pictures and surrendering is something we can find hard to do due to the security of what the picture gives us or what we have invested in it.

363. Definitely, we are like spectators in an art gallery gazing at a masterpiece who called it a load of trash – only to realise we’ve had gunk all over our glasses the whole time.

364. ‘…we only see what we want to see and don’t and can’t see what we don’t want to see; but what really happens is that we have actually seen it and everything with and around it but have just as quickly dismissed what does not fit the picture of what we are expecting to find.’ I would add that, we also dismiss what doesn’t suit us at any given point in time and play ignorant to the fact we know and have seen all.

     1. Just goes to show how dogged we are in keeping ourselves small and pretending that we are not aware!

365. Wonderfully exposing Gabriele of how we can convince ourselves of what we think is in front of us, when we choose to have our blinkers on and not see the bigger picture.

366. I remember as a child being shown a video at school of people playing basket ball – we were asked to count how many times the team passed the ball, and then at the end, we were asked if we had seen the man in a monkey suit walk through the game, stop and wave at the camera and then walk off. No one had noticed something so odd and obvious, because we had all been so focused on the need to count the passes of the ball. In one way you could say we were looking, but looking only to see what we wanted to see and not just what was there and it made us blind. How often is this true for all of life and are we willing to consider the consequences of the reality we consider truth given this proven ability to not see anything we do not want to fit?

     1. Thank you Rebecca, that’s a great example of how we keep ourselves in a box so to speak and fail to see and feel the greater world all around us. It reminds me that in any difficult situation not to hone in on the details without staying open to the bigger picture.

        1. I agree Elaine, and I think it is also so true in being ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ because in that we focus in one thing, the thing that we think is right or wrong and we miss the bigger picture of what is at play

367. “If someone says the earth is flat, then no volume of scientific proof will sway them otherwise until such time that they are ready to see beyond their belief system and conviction and thus willing to more truly see.” Belief systems are the greatest hindrances to seeing truth.

368. This just proves that the eyes through the mind are easily tricked and that is where being present in our bodies and learning to trust what we feel is so important.

369. The eyes see everything, but the mind sorts only what it wants to confirm and deletes what is not needed.

     1. Our mind deletes what does not suit the already framed picture. It is extraordinary to realise how quickly we can filter facts and turn them into our fiction.

370. An old quote fits quite well; ‘the most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know’.

371. Our level of awareness blocks what we’re able to see and this is why judgement of self is never advised. Through lived experience and willingness we gain clarity and understanding of a truth whereas a year, month day or second ago we were unable to. ‘see’ or feel it. Important to appreciate and accept where we are, yet commit to change our movements to align to truth.

372. Thank you Gabriele for sharing this profound yet simple insight with us. Your openness together with the quote from Serge expands our awareness of how easy it is choose complication over simplicity.. Truth is before us for all to see, trouble is in our mind’s eye we so often ignore, or simply delete it.

373. We have rules of spelling and grammar and pick up on the smallest detail but how much do we feel the energy of what we are reading or writing? Energetic Integrity is about making sure that the imprint we leave behind does no harm to anyone. Our words can be laced with emotion or filled with tenderness, our meaning can be vague, implying something or they can be absolute truth.

     1. Imagine if we were as stringent with discerning energy in everything we do, as we are quick to critique bad spelling and grammar we would be living with a different foundation and a completely different way of living life.

374. Wow Gabriele thank you for such an eye-opening article, so super important to become aware of the tricks our eyes play on us and how this plays out in all aspects of our lives.

375. The truth and simplicity is forever there but what we are choosing to see, and why, when it is not apparent?

376. What an awesome quote from Serge Benhayon:
     ‘The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.’
     No need for all these so called super well trained mediators and conflict counselors, bring simplicity back in and everything is solved.

     1. Absolutely Monika R. Keeping everything simple is indeed, everything.

377. A great article Gabriele, I can see how behind the choices I made in life were the beliefs that I held as true, this created for me blinkers that would not allow anything that did not fit the picture to enter, since then with truer eyesight and feeling, many pictures have been dissolved with more to be uncovered and dealt with.

378. “Or, to put it another way: I had gone into the looking, staring and searching with a preconceived idea, a judgment, an opinion, an image of what I was going to find, i.e. an aberrant ‘r’.” How often do we do that? Articles like these are super important to reveal how we view the world as they offer as an opportunity to see the ‘y’.

379. The pictures and pre-conceptions we have of life act as filters for what we see, hear, feel and experience. Reconnecting back to the part of us which remains unchanged allows us to start to reveal what it is that we are seeing through blurred vision.

380. “‘we only see what we want to see and don’t and can’t see what we don’t want to see;’…” and here-in lies the root of all relationship woes… Great expose Gabriele showing us the distortion between what we want to see as compared to what actually is there to be seen.

381. The filtering process that we do in order to not take in what we have seen happens in the blink of an eye. That is why we need to learn to observe what is going on within us in order to break the chain of just closing out what does not fit our belief.

382. This blog stood me in good stead when I was on a computer course and heard what the tutor said but couldn’t see what I was looking for where he told us to look. So I looked with my eyes more open and not limited by what I was expecting to find, and there it was, just like he said, at the bottom.

383. And this true sight is what ‘sees’ why another clings to what is not true, to make it safely mentally congruent.

384. We have learnt to rely on our eyes at the expense of our inner heart. I know there are many times I have dismissed what I have felt in favour of what my eyes are telling me. There is a saying ‘seeing is believing’, but just because we have seen it does not make it true.

385. Thank you Gabriele,

     Powerful statement including the quotes of Serge Benhayon. What a wise lesson we are here to learn! Comfort therefore thickens our vision from seeing truth.

386. When we choose to ignore the simplicity of being open to feeling what is true in any situation then we allow complication and distraction to enter – it always comes down to our choices and thus we can choose to see the truth in any moment.

387. We have spent so much time believing what we see and yet not seeing at all.

388. I love this blog, it shows that our ‘blind spot’ is not just physical – it runs far deeper than that.

389. “We then use the eyes to reject anything that does not fit the picture, does not fit in with what it is that we want, demand and absolutely need to see.” When does this start I wonder? Looking back at my own childhood I gave up trusting in my own experience when at boarding school, It felt easier to sell out to the norm that existed there – and so to go along with that – even tho I did know inside that never felt right or me.

390. ““Our senses are not truly or not predominantly responding to life,
     they are displaying what they are pitched to experience.” (Serge Benhayon)” This quote form Serge is exactly played out in your post Gabriele. It seems many of us were taken in, in searching for the ‘r’ in the wrong place, which didn’t exist.

391. This also explains very well why so many beautiful girls and women don’t see their own beauty whilst it is so clearly there.

     1. Yes, when we only focus of what we want to see and aren’t open for receiving all the beauty there is to see we only see the wrinkles and the details we don’t like about ourselves. We often also only look at physical features and don’t consider the multidimensional aspects.

     2. We must love and behold our inner beauty, for without it we are applying our filters to what the mirror is reflecting.

392. I agree Gabriel, we see just what we want to see. I have had a lot of experience recently of interpreting situations to fit my agenda and my outlook on life. We twist the truth in a big way. We go so far away from the truth of a situation. It’s quite amazing really, especially as we believe that if we saw it with our eyes then it was true eg the expressions ‘I saw it with my own eyes’ or ‘it happened in front of my very eyes.’ Our eyes are not the truth detectors that we have thought them to be. What we feel is in fact our true sight and we all have this innate of understanding life.

393. So much to ponder on with reading this article. What is very curious about this is that I read it the other day too and now could understand and see so much more in the text than the other day. Showing how indeed we only receive what we are ready and willing for to receive.

394. There is a very simply exercise that confirms what you say beautifully. A group is asked to read a short passage and count the number of ‘Fs.’.they can see. Only once has someone counted the correct number as Fs in the passage, 6. Most see only 2 or 3 ‘Fs”. We often only see what we want to see and if this case most people have a fixed idea of ‘F’s as an initial letter and miss the ones at the end of words. I use the exercise to raise awareness of the assumptions we make in life and about people. We often see people not as they are, but as we are.

395. What has also come up for me while reading this blog is how I can place what another has said as fact before what I am sensing and seeing. There is also an element of rightousness that sets in to avoid the responsibility of knowing what was true to blame another for their error – a clever and manipulative behaviour to call out and let go.

396. Our senses have their own markers of truth based in our lived experience, education, made choices, … The question is: Are we open to go beyond them and see the Truth in full without conditions or conditionings?

397. A few years ago there was a discovery that if you scrambled the letters of a word but left the first and the last, the mind would still see what was written. How often does the same the mind not see what is plain to see?

398. On reading this for the second time the y sticks out like a sore thumb which makes me see how easily we can be fooled unless we already know the truth. I guess this is why magicians and mentalists keep their secrets highly guarded.

399. This is a truly beautiful view that you have shared Gabriele. The truth is ever present it’s just depends on us how much we choose to let it in or filter it out.

400. We choose what we want and are ready to see. No right or wrong. It’s to be appreciated that we are seeing so much and great to be honest there is so much we don’t see. It’s our choice and our consequence.

401. We see only what we want and choose to see. How much of the truth of a person, a situation depends on what blinkers we have allowed ourselves to have. Similarly, what we allow others to see is our choice as well. How our world is, is a culmination of all our choices.

     1. You bring up an important point here – that we also don’t want to be seen for what and who we truly are. And thus, we operate in a world that completely lacks transparency.

402. Life is so much more simple and honoring when we use our ability to feel. Using only our sight and in looking for a certain picture, we miss out on so so much.

403. I have been aware for some time, especially when I am trying to prove a point at work, that I doctor the information that I provide to others, in order to support my case.

404. So prejudiced is our way of seeing things that we all see ourselves as individuals, going about our own small lives, in separation to everyone else, save the globally accepted ‘interactions’ that we all see ourselves as having with family members, friends and acquaintances. And yet this view that we all hold isn’t actually the truth at all. Far from it in fact because if we were able to take off our skewed goggles then we would suddenly see that we are physically all part of the One United Mass. One unit of Life that has mistakenly seen itself as existing in segments.

405. This blog is such an ‘eye-opener’ said with pun intended that we are completely controlled by what we want to see and disregard the rest.

406. Such clear examples of how we deceive ourselves to stay with the pictures of how we want our lives or the world to be.

407. Are we using our eyes mainly to confirm what we want to see and only actually receive what is there in the few cases where we have no choice but to accept that we can’t confirm what we are expecting to see?

408. It’s interesting to clock how present we are when we look at things: are we all there, in the moment and 100% focused, or wandering off in our minds, thinking about other things while seemingly looking but eyes half glazed over? And if we’re not looking, what is taking place, what energy are we allowing to pass through within and around us while we’re choosing not to see?

     1. How often do we drive somewhere and not remember the journey? Are we in that, someone auto have been in the driver’s seat because we were not there?

409. This is an epic article Gabriele on a topic that is so relatable. When we cannot see what is there to be seen right in front of our eyes, could it be that we are choosing a certain reality that fits our own agenda, need or expectation?

410. When I read your excellent blog Gabriele what occurs to me is that so often we don’t truly receive or observe life with our eyes but instead project outwards our ideas and beliefs about how life should be.

411. Are problems solved when we are open to feeling before we actually see? Then in our open-ness we display a Loving virtue and the space this creates brings in so many corrections to our ill lived ways, which is as you have shared Gabriele an eye opening experience.

412. Your description of mental cages is so true. How many cages do we have going on in our minds? They keep us in a certain way, format, size, shape and not let us see beyond the cage walls. We don’t see the ‘y’.

413. Love this profound piece of wisdom, thank you

414. This is a fascinating presentation and exploration as to the purpose of our eyes, how we are currently using them and are we maximising their potential. It is so true that we look to see what we want to see to justify our chosen wayward behaviours, a ‘tunnel-vision’ if you like that only wants to look for evidence as to why we can continue on our wayward path. However, our eyes are capable and designed to do so much more and in fact are receptors of visual detail, details of movement, movements that communicate the vibration of truth or untruth, all for us to discern and confirm what we are already sensing within. With this we are can live guided more and more by the impulse of truth, that which we know and feel is true, backed by the confirmation of our senses.

415. I was looking for that r too and missed the y … such a simple example but it captures so well what we do, how we narrow our focus and how we already have a picture in our heads we’re trying to match, and in that we’re not really seeing what’s there, or we dismiss what doesn’t fit. And I love the quote that in fact it’s simplicity that’s missing, so appropriate to the topic raised here.

     1. Amazing how the ‘y’ stands out once you do actually see it. So it is for us in many other ways when the ‘scales fall from our eyes’ and we finally disabuse ourselves of a notion we have held. The truth totally stands out and from thereon in cannot be ‘not seen’.

416. There is a big difference between ‘hunting’ for something we want to see or experience and staying with yourself and letting what is there present itself to you and we just receive.

417. You so clearly show Gabriele that we see what we want to see based on what we are told.

418. You describe a very everyday phenomena, I sometimes have it with the simplest things and then the moment the blinkers come off it is so clear and simple. Yes, it shows how conditioned we are and look at the world.

     1. A real eye-opener that even when we can spot one mistake as this example gives we are conditioned in many ways – each with its own tint and construct, until we begin to break down these pictures and beliefs that hinder our true sight

419. I was struck by how when you were convinced you had to look for an ‘r’, you kept missing the other letter, or your brain was simply ignoring it. How often does our tendency to push for an outcome stop us from sensing the precious offering sitting right under our nose?

420. There is a big difference between being open to receive all that is there to be seen as opposed to filtering or projecting out even what we want or expect to ‘see’.

     1. Yes, having a picture or an expectation of what might be there, rather than receiving what is – simple really! Yet how I do love complication, or rather my spirit does, cos it can then really play with me. Time to be more vigilant – and have no expectations…

        1. Beautiful Sue, “Yes, having a picture or an expectation of what might be there, rather than receiving what is – ‘ Receiving is the essence. To fully appreciate this quality is to let go of self.

421. This is an interesting lesson in distraction for me Gabriele – I immediately spotted the error of the additional ‘y’ in the first word and then spent absolutely ages seeking and searching again and again for the typo you brought attention to of the ‘r’ in the quote you shared.
     “They key to any minor or major problem is
     to find the simplicity that has been ignored”.
     Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367

     1. Love this Stephanie, a lesson in how self doubt often leads us astray.

422. Love it Gabriele! I so agree with I see what I want to see. I could say day in and day out I see what I perceive and also get smashed by pictures. I was wondering what I was going to comment on reading this blog and I suppose that I am aware that I do this is the first point of honesty out of this long held self-created-dilemma.

423. Very cool observation Gabriele. I have observed a similar thing with our hearing sense as well. We hear what we want to hear or we limit what we are hearing to what we are ready to hear. As a result people are certain that this or that didn’t happen, but they have missed a whole part of what occurred. The important thing about this, and it would go for our sight as well, if we are in a position where we are listening to someone share their story, we need to bear in mind that it is from their perspective and no-one else’s. People can be very convincing around their stories especially if they are stressed and overwhelmed, but they will still be only sharing their perspective. Therein lies the importance of non-judgment. Hear their perspective, respect them in what they are sharing, don’t take anything on board and support them in working through what came up for them, from their own understanding. Things always go pear shaped when we sympathise or take sides.

     1. We are pre programmed to hear and see what we are able to receive by the way that we have moved prior to whatever it is that we are about to either receive or not receive. When I was compulsively exercising out of a need to squash the irritation that I was feeling in my body, then due to the way that I was moving my body, there was absolutely no way in the world that I would have been able to hear the truth about the effects of strenuous exercise on the body. I had to move differently first, before I was able to even be open to hearing the truth about the harm that strenuous exercise can do.

        1. That’s awesome Alexis. That highlight how important the quality of our movements are and how much that influences what we can be aware of around us and especially the consequences of our own choices.

424. ‘They key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.’ Serge Benhayon, Esoteric Teachings & Revelations, Volume II, ed. 1, p 367. Wow, what an inspirational quote and when deeply considered, is the answer to all our problems.

     1. Yes, and one way is to simply receive what is there, which is the simplicity.

425. This is amazing – I didn’t see the spelling mistake either when I first read it, looking also for the ‘r’ that was out of place – it is so true that when we get narrow and controlled in what we look for or what to see, we are totally blind to what is really there and our whole reality is different, but not true.

426. Amazing the lesson(s) one can learn from a ‘missing’ R. It even spawned a blog post which has allowed others to learn from what you’ve experienced. One could easily say ‘you got it wrong’, but it’s great to find the lesson in it.

427. Beautiful sharing Gabriele, it so perfectly shows how we have the answer right at the start but overlook it, skipping ahead.

428. This is such a superb example of how we only see what we want to see, but when we learn to receive what is all around us, our whole perception of life alters.

429. Our perception of things is shaped by our own experiences and beliefs and can also mean that we are not seeing what is truly there to be observed.

430. Thank you Gabriele for such a simple yet powerful demonstration of how our sight is not objective, that in fact we choose what we want to see.

431. I have arrogantly considered myself good at proof reading just as I have been blinkered about insisting my view on a particular subject is the correct one and in the past until I was willing to see the truth in any situation no amount of argument would convince me otherwise. Re-connecting to my inner heart and trusting that I can feel what is true has simplified my life as well as having the humility to recognise I may not be seeing everything there is to see.

432. A great example of having an expectation and then wanting it to fit the picture at any costs – what other areas in life do we do this?

433. And I feel sure my poor sight – from childhood – is because I didn’t want to ‘see’ what was going on in my family. Those who are registered blind develop their other senses, including their sixth sense, so much more than those of us who rely more on sight.

434. This article made me ponder – do research scientists get the results they want to see – regardless of the truth? If you are looking for a particular result you’ll endeavour to find it, regardless of whether it is reproducible elsewhere. Our ‘evidence-based ‘ medicine is built on this model.

     1. They are looking for outcomes and would be likely to disregard/diminish evidence that does not back up their hypothesis thus undermining the foundation of ‘evidence-based’ medicine which science is so wedded to at the moment. If we connected to the power of our inner wisdom then we would not need to rely only on such evidence as we could discern the truth in any situation – are we ready to do this?

435. When I proof read – without any agenda – I can spot typos – but in this case, searching for the ‘r’, I didn’t see the ‘they’. SO true – we see what we are looking for.

436. “When we start to use our sight and other senses to respond to life, guided by what we feel, before and above all else, then we will start to develop true sight, which comes second and confirms the knowing of our inner-heart and the what is, the place where we are one.” what a depth in truth offered here about what true sight is really about. I agree though so often we see what we want to see!

437. The moment I go into seeing without first feeling or sensing what is actually going on I am at the mercy of that which is around me. What is worth pointing out is that what is there in front of me to be seen has been created and set up based on my previous movements, to support me to evolve. Do I get caught up and lose myself into what the picture is presenting in front of me or do I hold myself in the connection to my innermost?

438. I also didn’t spot the ‘y’, interestingly I gave up looking pretty quickly moving on thinking that the sentence had already been rectified. It is so true that we only see and / or accept what we are ready to accept and we believe situations are a certain way until such times as we are willing to see the truth.

439. Having the openness to see things as they truly are is rarer than we might think. Yet removing the blinkers and getting that clear view is essential if we are to move forwards.

440. Gabriele, I love this blog – there is so much to unpack in it. Firstly I am incredibly inspired by the quote itself ‘The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored’ but also how the whole point you make was thrown up by simplicity itself. Only a couple of days ago someone wrote a note for me and I got confused between their ‘r’s and their ‘y’s. You would have thought having this in my consciousness would have meant that I would have spotted the error immediately. I am in the profession of English teaching and am used to marking a lot of essays and spotting a lot of spelling errors, but like you I didn’t see it straight away – I thought I was looking for an ‘r’, not a ‘y’ (as I was reading I was also caught up more by the quality of the quote and its significance that my eyes simply skimmed over the detail of how the quote was couched). To have experienced exactly what you did was gold as it totally proves how narrow we get in our mental constructs! Thank you.

441. Our eyes are the key to a magician’s illusions.

442. I also fell into the trap of looking for the r and not seeing the y and although I couldn’t recall any specific moments in my life where this sort of thing has happened to me I know it probably happens on a very regular basis.

443. No wonder we are all so at odds with each other throughout the world, because if we are not seeing from what we feel we can’t possibly come to any sort of agreement on anything, for we will continue to see what best suits our individual pictures.

     1. And as long as we all continue to see ourselves as different from each other, then surprise, surprise, we will continue to have differences. It’s only the united view that we are all the same that will eventually re-unite us all.

444. What a brilliant example of the way we use our eyes and how we live believing everything we see – or we think we see – often without question. I had a wonderful, but at the time uncomfortable, lesson along these lines recently when I reacted to an email I had been sent in response to one I had written. I could feel an intense reaction to what I read – or thought I had read – and quickly closed it down. A few days later, yes it took that long such was my discomfort, I decided to read it again and as I read I realised that I had totally mis-read what was written and in fact there was much support of my original email. Huge lesson and one definitely being embraced but now there are lots of questions as to why I reacted in the first place.

445. I cannot see an r out of place but I can see a y and yes, I agree, it is challenging, we see what we expect to see and are often blinded to the truth of what is in front of our very eyes. The more we can ‘see’ with the eyes of the whole body, the more we can feel what is going on energetically, and we can then discern what is true or not.

446. The same with relationships – if I am holding a pre-conception/image/judgment about someone, I am already shutting myself from getting to know them beyond what I think I know and being surprised by their true beauty. Makes me realise how crippling it is to even think I know something/someone and have a conclusion about them.

     1. It’s a good point about not putting people in boxes so to speak, with expectations, but being truly open to responding to how they are in the present moment…

     2. Yes and this also shows how important it is we see another ‘new or fresh’ every time and actually see and read the energy they are in.

447. This is just so brilliant. Thank you, Gabriele. And so true. It’s amazing how once our perception gets registered as correct, it’s hard to let go of that positioning and our senses get defaulted to confirm what it already knows. Experiencing life from that place is like using a very narrow focused lens when what is being offered and presented is well beyond our comprehension in its volume and quality. What a waste. It would be far wiser to be able to just receive what is, instead of darting out to try making sense of what we think we already know, which really are just the fragments of the whole.

448. We often make assumptions based on what we think we see and then complicate by adding a story and then before you know there is a whole history to find your way back through in order to see what was truly there in the first place before seeing what we wanted to see.

449. “we only see what we want to see and don’t and can’t see what we don’t want to see; but what really happens is that we have actually seen it and everything with and around it but have just as quickly dismissed what does not fit the picture of what we are expecting to find…” Wow what a powerful blog exposing the way in which we choose to see that, and only that, which supports our view of the world.

450. Wow, even I was looking for the “r” and completely missed the “they”. Quite arrogantly, I tried to take out some of the r’s in words to derive at a different meaning of the sentence thinking that thats the “trick” and I’m way to smart to be fooled by this riddle… oh how tricky is the mind.

451. Well said Richard. This shows us how very blinding our beliefs can be.

452. Thank you Gabriele for this very simple and powerful example of how we see what we want to see and not the truth of what is there. No glasses in the world have a prescription strong enough to correct this human aberrance. It is only through fine-tuning our daily movements to be in accordance to the soul’s light and love that we can allow ourselves once more to see and feel with the ‘eyes of the heart’ and not rely on the images we are fed that have no substance (truth) to them.

453. We don’t see, we receive, and we can put whichever filter we choose. They key is to remove the filter on that which we bring from within, then everything can be received in full.

454. It is so also true that in our relationships we can condemn people and judge them using our preconceived ideas and gossip that we have heard rather than responding to the person in front of us.

455. It’s so true that we narrow our view down to what we are expecting or wanting to find. I suspect that this has lead to much conflict worldwide as each side is firmly convinced that what they are looking at and interpreted accordingly, is 100% correct.

456. You have so brilliantly exposed how constructed thought works to hinder our awareness, which ultimately stops us from being able to ‘read’.

457. This is very true, that we only see what we are aligned to to see.

458. A very powerful blog that leaves me pondering about many things and to expose my set of blinkers I am wearing and choosing in situations I want them to limit my sight.

     1. Yes, a great blog for a wake up call and moment of honesty about what we are telling ourselves is ‘right’ because we are blind to the truth.

459. This makes perfect sense to how we are blinded to the things we do not want to see and shape things to see what we want, and then defend what we say we have seen.

460. Wow – when I was looking for the out of place ‘r’ I did not see the ‘y’ – very telling of how we can look but not receive what is there to be shown to us.

461. There’s a choice to be made, moment to moment: do we see with our eyes or feel from our body, first? When we combine the two, and feel first, we get the full package of what’s in front of us: there is always more depth to feel than just the pictures we receive through our eyes.

     1. What we see is only one perspective. We can zoom in or out, but the view is the same. When we feel, it is spherical.

     2. And when we do that, it’s amazing how much information there is available with which to see what is really going on, and to inform us in our next movements.

462. I too have been caught into believing what I see and holding strong to a mental image that has consequently blinded me to the truth. The more I learn to look within first and receive the world around me from this position, the more obvious it becomes that relying on my senses alone devoid of this inner guidance can be a very selective and unreliable process.

463. “we only see what we want to see and don’t and can’t see what we don’t want to see; but what really happens is that we have actually seen it and everything with and around it but have just as quickly dismissed what does not fit the picture of what we are expecting to find…” This indeed is incredible – a definite illusion breaker … It makes me see that there are many, many alternate realities, perceptions that are simultaneously happening… No wonder there is mis-communication, dynamics, problems and conflict going on in the world when we don’t see eye to eye.

464. “The key to any minor or major problem is to find the simplicity that has been ignored.” and what a great quote to accompany the lesson you received that day Gabriele! Thank you for sharing as I love reading your revelations.

     1. It’s a brilliant quote, for it’s a perfect fit with what Gabriele has shared in this blog. It’s got me wondering if I don’t see something am I then ignoring it? I must be if it’s already there.

465. Just another example of how the senses seek to be confirmed: We have a sound here in the neighborhood, a kind of very strange coughing (or something completely different) we cannot identify for what it is but plenty of pictures or associations come to mind to connect the sound to an image. The mind wants to know so that it can rest, the kind of ‘put it in a box’ or ‘tag it with a label’ rest.

     1. Haha, reminds me of when I thought I heard a barking dog. It was a deer! Preconceived ideas so often can let us down. Treat each situation as a new one.

        1. So true Alexander and Nick – There was an incident some time back that had everyone in our house ready to charge out and rescue a baby that was obviously being badly abused or murdered somewhere nearby – in fact it was a fox standing in the middle of the road expressing itself..

466. I have been caught by this reading what you ‘expect’ to see many times and why we have to get someone else to proof read any article. This also underlines why research is fallible if it is undertaken by someone who has an investment in the outcome, as they are susceptible to see what they want or expect to see.

467. I totally get this Gabriele! I couldn’t see the extra‘y’ for a bit either and can in many aspects of my life have tunnel vision or a linear perspective; only looking for what I want to find! Great sharing, thank you

     1. I second that – I didn’t see it either! What narrow bands we live within.

     2. The moment you get into a mission of wanting to see something or more, nothing will be available and on offer. True sight is never searching and looking out, but looking inside and receiving spherically without any agenda. It needs an open body that does not shy away to “see” everything- that does not shy away from feeling how it is to sense and see everything around. The moment, we go into judgement, fixing, withdrawal, escaping in superficiality to name a few – we limit ourselves from feeling and seeing everything that is there to see.

        1. Well said Stephanie. “The moment, we go into judgement,……..” is when we put the blinkers on.

     3. I had the same experience Bernadette, while looking for the ‘r’ I completely missed the ‘y’ for some time. Very eye-opening in regards to my own blinkered vision giving me much to ponder.

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