Seeing the Light in Each Other

Our story, about the failing monastery and the monk who visited his friend the rabbi for advice, reminds me of how we fail to look for the beauty and good within each other. It is so much easier to focus on faults or flaws. Can we believe that there is a quality of light and goodness that exists within each of us? If we focus on that does it change the way we perceive each other? By seeing someone in a new light, does it change how that person responds to us. Does it allow that person to become better, because we have no longer pigeon-holed or labeled him? We can discover this for ourselves by changing our perceptions a little at a time.