a little contrast...

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Without the dark, there can be no light....

ARE YOU ENJOYING THE CONTRAST????

abe has said this over and over...

yes...the Universe is based on contrast, choice, contrast, choice...contrast can be viewed as suffering, challenging, something to be worked against...or it can be viewed simply as a comparative term--how things differ...a helpful situation that leads to more refined focus.

in a world, in a reality, in a universe where WE KNOW all is well--and we get to come back over and over and over again--and there is NO DEATH, and we are always PERFECT, expanding eternal beings who SEEK variety in life experiences...

yes...contrast is necessary...

or you would be bored--and you would cease to desire--and when you cease to desire--cease to get enjoyment and evolution out of life...its transition time...

Without the contrast, there can be no quantifying joy....

different realities...who sees what?

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From sea to shining see.......

let me set an analogy for you all, that may help explain how people can come upon this present moment in time and see completely different realities...it seems that its not possible, but it is OH so possible..

a lovely person sets out one day to stand by the sea...they wish to see what the sea is like, as they have never seen the sea, nor heard anything about it--they are seeing the sea for the first time and they have been see=less of the sea from this point into the past...

and so, this person stands at the edge of the sea--and from their perspective, tries to decide what the sea is like from what they can see....it is a lovely warm day, and there is little wind, and as they touch their toes into the water, and feel the little ripples of tide gently coming in and out--they proclaim--i can see and feel that the sea is a lovely place, it is gentle and warm and inviting...and so, they go away, after seeing the sea and knowing that the sea is good.

and another person, who has also been see-less of the sea comes to the sea to decide what the sea is all about...and from their limited perspective, they stand at the edge of the sea to see what they can see of the sea...but it is a cold and blustery day--and the waves CRASH and they are cold and the sand blows against their face...and thus, they see that the sea is a cold and powerful place, full of danger...and they go away thinking that...

and another see-less person, comes to the sea to see what he can see--but this person, does not come to the side of the sea to see--he comes in a boat...and from his more expanded perspective--he spends more time IN the sea, and ON the sea--and he can see that the sea is good...filled wiht creatures, with many moods, that it can be warm, and it can be cold, it can be gentle and it can be rough...and from that perspective of seeing that the sea can encompass all things--he decides that he will take his little boat out on the days that HE FEELS he will love the sea the most...and he chooses and thus, even though he knows that the sea can sometimes BE a certain way, it is a way he chooses not to SEE....his choice gives him what he wants...which is warm weather, and a gentle breeze...and that is the sea he SEES