"For judgment I came into this world,
that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."
It is said that love is blind. But is it?
Actually nothing on earth is as clear-sighted as love.
The thing that is blind is not love but attachment.
An attachment is a state of clinging that comes from the false belief
that something or someone is necessary for your happiness.
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
If you wish to see them as they are you must attend to your attachments
and the fears that your attachments generate.
Because when you look at life it is these attachments and fears
that will decide what you will notice and what you block out.
What ever you notice then commands your attention.
And since your looking has been selective
you have an illusory version of the things and people around you.
The more you live with this distorted version
the more you become convinced that it is the only true picture of the world
because your attachments and fears continue to process incoming data
in a way that will reinforce your picture.
It is only when you drop your beliefs, your fears
and the attachments that breed them that you will be freed
from the insensitivity that makes you so deaf and blind
to yourself and to the world.
From The Way to Love
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