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🌿THE SINGLE EYE, HOW UNDIVIDED AWARENESS LIGHTS UP YOUR BODY🌿 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light”. -Matthew 6:22 The ancient words from the Bible hit different once you start paying attention: “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.” It’s describing a very real shift that happens when your perception stops flipping between opposites - good/bad, me/you, want/don’t-want - and settles into a clearer, more unified way of seeing. While we are navigating work, school, relationships, social media, and figuring out who you are, this idea isn’t abstract spirituality. It shows up in how your body actually feels day to day. Eyes don’t just receive light, they channel. A clear, focused “single” eye was thought to fill the entire body with vitality, while a scattered or divided one brought confusion and heaviness. Modern science doesn’t talk about light shooting out of your eyes, but it does confirm how massively your vision and focus affect your nervous system. Your eyes are wired straight into your brain. What you look at, how steadily you look, and whether your attention is all over the place directly influences your hormones, posture, energy levels, and even how rested you feel. When you train your attention on one thing (your breath, a spot between your eyebrows, or even just the present moment), your brain changes. The parts responsible for distraction and overthinking quiet down. Stress chemicals drop. Your heart rate slows, breathing deepens, and a sense of calm energy spreads through your body. Many people describe it as an inner warmth or lightness, almost like the “light” the verse mentions. The pineal gland (the small structure in the center of your brain often called the “third eye”) gets involved too - it helps regulate sleep, mood, and your sense of day and night. In quiet, focused states, some notice pressure or subtle brightness in that forehead area. It’s not magic, but it feels pretty profound. Now compare that to living in constant duality - the push-pull of desires, comparisons, and fear of missing out. Scrolling, chasing validation, stressing about the future, or judging yourself and others keeps your body in low-grade fight-or-flight mode. Shoulders tighten, breathing gets shallow, your gut knots up, and you feel heavy or drained. That fragmented state literally wears the body down: more inflammation, worse sleep, scattered energy. When you start practicing a more unified awareness - discerning things rather than constantly split through judgment - the body responds almost immediately. You might notice your posture opening up, your chest feeling less tight, and a sense of flow instead of resistance. Heart and brain rhythms sync better. Digestion improves. Chronic tension eases. Over time, the body feels more coherent, like everything is working together instead of fighting itself. People in these states often describe their body as lighter, transparent, or buzzing with quiet energy. It’s physiology reflecting a mind that’s stopped warring with itself. You can spot this truth in everyday moments. When your “eye is single” fully present with whatever you’re doing, you feel steady, calm-alert, and kind of lit up from inside. Movements feel smoother, decisions clearer. When you’re divided, you get that restless, heavy, contracted feeling: tight jaw, racing thoughts, the sense that something’s off. Your body becomes a surprisingly accurate feedback system. Tension or expansion, lightness or heaviness - these are signals. At 18, you’re at a perfect age to experiment with this. Try sitting quietly for ten minutes, focusing gently on one point (your breath or the space between your eyebrows). Notice what happens in your body. The more you practice choosing unified, non-reactive awareness over the constant mental tug-of-war, the more your physical experience matches the clarity of your mind.

A verse often associated with this perspective is: “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.” - Gospel of Matthew Many mystics interpreted the “single eye” as undivided perception; not seeing reality through the split of good/bad, self/other, but through unity.

That is the pull between heaven (oneness) and earth (duality). Flesh against spirit also if you like. And flesh is filled with desires that ‘FEEL GOOD’ when met. But only temporary. Because the more the flesh / duality is fed upon, the stronger the pull becomes towards things that only feed us temporary dopamine shots. Whereas, a life that is directed towards oneness, becomes filled with more of the primordial consciousness. But it takes sacrifices and commitment to get there.

True consciousness does not participate in the theater of empathy. When confronted with suffering, it understands the mechanics instantly, by nature untouched by the mandatory rituals of pity or shock. The mind feels guilty for this clarity, mistaking its non-reactive neutrality for a lack of compassion. ​The moment the ego uses this neutrality to feel superior, detached, or an unappreciated martyr, it has re-entered the theater. True neutrality doesn't pride itself on not caring; it simply carries no mask.

The thing that we have to understand more than anything is that duality WAS CAUSED by creation. Whether that was an experiment that G-d allowed for creation TO EXPERIENCE ITSELF or not, is another discussion. But if we take the primordial consciousness as G-d’s consciousness, and creation suffering in duality, the suffering of experiencing separation is used as the path of return. Inherently (there we go again 😁) - everything that symbolises unity, is a search for the soul that desperately wants to go home.

@Lackee44 @ferpanque @RealityGlitches Pain, longing, is all about the soul seeking its origins. It’s basically G-d pulling on our heartstrings. I am leaving the concept of G-d out of this discussion, but for the sake of clarity - it’s LOVE CALLING US HOME.

The moment we become fully / consciously aware that we are separated from Oneness - we can search for the way back. “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.” - Gospel of Matthew The key idea though is that judgment and discernment are not the same thing.

Dualiteit.

This is about everyone’s ‘inherent worth’ being subject to spiritual laws AND duality. We have to learn how these spiritual laws function and how duality causes pain and what it means to live from a ‘separate-from-divine’ consciousness and how to return to it. That is how we sort life out. Together and individually.

@Lackee44 @ferpanque @RealityGlitches That’s true; blessings and curses are a spiritual law. But that law does not nullify ‘inherent worth’.

The ‘Fall of Man’ can be understood not only as a moral event but as a shift in consciousness. In this interpretation, Adam and Eve originally lived in direct unity with God and creation. There was no sense of separation, judgment, shame, or self-consciousness. Reality was experienced as a whole. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil symbolizes the emergence of dualistic perception; the tendency to divide reality into opposites: good and bad, self and other, sacred and profane. When consciousness identifies with these distinctions, it begins to see itself as a separate individual existing inside reality rather than as an expression of the deeper awareness from which reality arises. The Fall, therefore, is the birth of the separate self; the egoic perspective that experiences life through division and judgment. Shame appears, fear appears, and the sense of exile from God begins. Humanity becomes identified with concepts rather than direct being. Redemption is not necessarily the acquisition of more knowledge but the recognition of what existed before separation and to learn how to return to the awareness symbolized by the Spirit of God hovering over the waters before creation took form, the primordial consciousness from which all experience arises. #Genesis315

CONSCIOUSNESS OR THE SPIRIT OF GOD? In the language of the Bible, the opening of Genesis says that “the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters” before creation takes form. Many contemplatives have interpreted this not just as a cosmological statement, but as a symbol of undifferentiated potential preceding manifestation. In that reading, consciousness itself is the “hovering” presence, and the world of forms arises within it. The phrase “the Spirit of God hovering and creating” points to consciousness not as a thing inside reality, but as the field within which reality appears. That perspective has parallels in: ✨Christian mysticism, where the divine ground precedes all forms. ✨Advaita Vedanta, where pure awareness is the substrate of experience. ✨Certain strands of Sufism, where creation is seen as divine self-disclosure. ✨Some interpretations of process philosophy and idealism, where mind or consciousness is primary. #MindConfetti

It’s not about seeing neutral. That is not the goal; the goal is to reduce suffering and to grow in love. For self and for others. Neutral is non-judgmental so we do not rise above (I am better than you) or sink below (you are better than me) others. Objectively that may be true. But inherently, it is not true. Does the life of a child in Africa that was born in poor circumstances hold more or less value than the one of a child born to bankers in Switzerland? Who determines this?

@ferpanque @RealityGlitches @MindConfetti Bc everything has a story, meaning & reason to it, so objectively it makes no sense to "just see neutrally" man is explaining his dull self as if being "neutral" just because of his imperfect impersonal philosophy aka mind speculation. Its not that deep experience as he thinks

@anxietymsgs Yes. But best thing to do is explain your concerns and express where you need clarity from them. If the situation allows it.

@WNLOpZondag Prachtig haar heeft ze ✨

"Er groeien generaties op met de gedachte: horen wij hier nou wel of horen wij hier nou niet?", zegt Fidan Ekiz naar aanleiding van het het debat in de Tweede Kamer over de begrippen ‘remigratie’ en ‘omvolking’ en de vraag of politici die termen moeten gebruiken. "Ik had nooit gedacht dat ik hier zou moeten zitten en dit zou moeten uitleggen." #WNL

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Totally the opposite energy of last night ✌️ #MindConfetti 🌸✨