How to Tidy the Appearance of Your Heart Using Others as a Mirror

★Other people are beings who reflect your inner self back to you

Believing in others is believing in yourself.

The two are joined by an equals sign.

So to tell the truth, if you don’t believe in the self that believed in others, you can’t really say you believe in others from the bottom of your heart either.

We told you before, didn’t we, that whatever you feel about someone is always you reflecting yourself and then thinking this and that about it.

This kind of talk, sometimes called the law of the mirror, can only be understood by people who sincerely face themselves and try to return to their true selves. But in the process of the evolution of consciousness, it’s a stage everyone must pass through someday.

Things like thinking something when you look at someone, or having a chemical reaction to someone’s words and feeling all kinds of emotional thoughts, are exactly, just as they are, what helps you notice the habits of your own thoughts.

That’s why we say others are your mirror.

Once you understand this, living becomes so easy you can hardly believe it.

Because as long as you take what you feel about others as being about yourself, it sinks in from the bottom of your heart that nothing other than your own habits of thought was ever harming you.

★When consciousness evolves, people can trust one another

Going back to where we started: for everyone to live in harmony, people must be bound together by trust.

Because where there is no trust, there is no sense of security or peace.

For example, the reason many pet dogs and cats relax and feel safe at home is that they trust the humans who look after them, right?

Wild animals, who don’t know how to trust humans and have no store of such experiences, don’t open their hearts to humans, unless it’s a saint.

It’s the same among humans: unless people think, “I can be open-hearted with this person,” they generally don’t bare themselves to others.

But that’s only the story of the phenomenal world where people wear physical bodies. In a world where the light of life is laid bare, everyone’s thoughts are completely visible to one another, and no one is hiding thoughts they’d rather others didn’t see. So everyone is someone you can be open-hearted with, and people can cooperate from the heart, help each other by making the most of their strengths, and work for the harmony of the whole.

That world where the light of life is laid bare exists in the world of the consciousness of the divine realm, deep beneath your surface thoughts.

In truth, it isn’t a question of whether human beings believe in each other or not. They are beings who trust each other from the very beginning and live as divided expressions of one single life.

On the way there, there’s the stage, as we said a moment ago, of seeing others as a mirror and looking at yourself through what you feel about people. But beyond that, there is a world where there’s no self and no other, where everyone lives as a branch of one single life.

Someday, everyone will return to that true self and build on the Earth a world like a heaven of love and truth.

As long as you don’t forget that truth, it’s all right whatever thoughts you may be covered in now.

Because you can surely erase and purify those negative thoughts and bring forth the self that is the light of life itself.