Day 174 "Our Illusions Alone"

Life cannot be lived without acknowledging the importance of showing respect and adoration for the beings that we share this planet with.

If you live selfishly, with no desire to help, no desire to heal, no desire to be something to someone or something else, then you will only ever be just yourself, selfishly.

You are the sum of your efforts to connect or to stand alone.

To appreciate or to deny.

To help or to hurt.

You are all the moments that you take to acknowledge the beauty of this world, or the ones in which you revel in its darkness alone.

A blind man might see more than another who has chosen to close their eyes.

A blind man might see that by appreciating the life that surrounds us, and that honoring it properly, will lead to the most fulfilling of visions, while a man with closed eyes will only see the illusions of the ego.

We can take beautiful enlightened moments to appreciate the world around us, to ruminate on the nature of things, to feel the connection of that which surrounds us, to honor these things with appreciation, or to close our eyes to these things and see only blindness and illusions alone.