But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Ancient Greek wisdom invites us not to place too much trust in appearances, there being an understanding that the exterior is nothing more than an attempt to impress those easily impressed by an attractive image.
Our mirror image speaks to our perceived need to view the outer person, the mask that we deliver to the world as if to say...this is who I am.
The wisest of observers of human kind constantly remind us that there is in the human heart another life, filled with all that is our true self waiting to be embraced, that we may come to know our complete self.
Self deception is a daily travelling companion, for each of us understands that our mask is a comfortable display of everything that we wish the world to believe is our true self.
The heart of the matter is inviting us to face the truth alive within our very being, inviting us to follow Him, that He may guide us into realising all that we are, His outreach into the lives of all who through chance encounters, enter our life for us to assist.
“In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
In reason, and is judicious”
~John Milton, Paradise Lost
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