http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/eric-butterworth-believing-is-seeing en-us 60 <p align="center"><em>&quot;Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! </em></p><p align="center"><em>You see things, not as they are, but as you are.&quot;</em></p><p align="center">&nbsp;</p><p align="center">~ Eric Butterworth, 20th Century Spiritual Teacher</p><p align="center">from <em>Spiritual Economics</em></p><p>U2 says it another way: <em>&quot;You&rsquo;re packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been; A place that has to be believed to be seen.&quot;</em></p><p>What do you need to believe to see?</p><p>(What are you waiting for?)</p><p>&hellip;</p><p>Another thought on the subject from Thoreau:</p><p>&ldquo;<em>If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Hw will put some things behind, will pas an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.&rdquo;</em></p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:16 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:283:283 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/283