Excerpt: If we've concluded that we're pretty much alone in a meaningless universe, in competition with everyone else, forced to fight for every inch until we die, we can find all the evidence we need to continue to reinforce that belief system in everything we do, in everyone we meet, in everything we learn. As necessary, we'll project what we believe into our experiences, and act in ways that fulfill our prophecies....Too exhausted and beaten down from upholding our chaotic, leaky thought systems to try anything new, we settle for "being right" about what we already think.... There are no rules for a spiritually empty world, a loveless, meaningless void. Life sucks and then you die....We hang on to our tough-guy philosophies...We keep turning back to what we know, or to what we think we know....What if the differences in the lives of accepting people, and resistant, fearful people, arise in large part mostly from their different choices about what they want to see, about what reality they choose to create....Seeing through visionary spiritual sight isn't as difficult a change as you might think. God only requires from us a tiny bit of willingness. He will handle all the rest....When I look on others with loving, spiritual eyes, I give them an amazing gift--the gift of seeing themselves completely differently--more loving, more beautiful and good than they ever realized. My accepting vision accurately reflects back to them the truth about their deepest nature, which is no less than the most thoughtful present anyone can ever give to another human being....The gift of seeing our own strengths and goodness is not one we can easily give ourselves. It takes another person choosing to see us lovingly, to see our own selves at our best....On an eternal scale, seeing everything spiritually is what we're here for....   more »