At a 1998 weekend workshop I attended, Dr. Ibrahim Jaffe, founder of the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism, shared a life-changing story with his students.
Ibrahim said that after watching a TV nature program in which a lion savagely ripped apart a gazelle, he had been distraught. Retreating into meditation, he implored God, How could you allow such carnage and tragedy to exist? The response he received humbled him and restored his faith in divine intelligence. “I felt and saw through inner revelation how this incident was experienced from a higher level as pure love and that it was beautiful beyond description,” he told those of us in his class.
It all comes down to perspective. To our unenlightened eyes, this world may appear cruel and harsh, but even the brutality inherent in the animal kingdom has its own stark beauty. Indeed, looking through God’s eyes, we see that simply by living our lives, we all serve each other in ways both simple and profound. From that day on, I challenged myself to see the world through God’s eyes—to the extent that I could, of course—so that I too could witness every moment unfolding with beauty, love, and perfection.
Granted, that is much easier said than done, especially on days when I am the gazelle. The more I train myself to look through God’s eyes, however, the more peaceful and grounded I become. Observing the world through God’s eyes may be the secret that inspires you to break free from the prison of human perception and soar into the higher realms where peace, love, and beauty reside.
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