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Who am I to know the mind and perception of God? And yet in Genesis 1, we are told that God’s perception of the world is that it is good (tov). We are also told that we are made in the “image and likeness” of God. We also know that God desires that we know Him and seek Him. So as we draw closer to God, we become better able to perceive things as God does and not as man does. In the end, perhaps it’s just as simple as perceiving everything with sheer love and perceiving everything as completely good–no matter what our finite senses tell us otherwise.
I believe that at my current state I’m unable to view reality from the perspective of The Creator. I can only realise how far away I am, how separated I am from Him and His thought. I believe I need to begin by scrutinising this scattered state first. Then with the help of some discernment raise a prayer that, in His Grace, He will guide me through the way of “Torah and Mitzvot” so that through the “Wisdom of Kabbalah”, under my teacher’s guidance, and, alongside other “Points in the Heart” I will be able to attain His qualities. Â Only then can I dare to believe I’ll have a chance on viewing reality from His perspective.
To remove the egoistic perspective of whether the world is one minute either working with me or against me. Rather, to see the world from the vantage of the Creator is to see that everything from the external is good, as all we experience is intended to help us grow toward the equivalence of form with the Creator. Amen
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