Seeing Through The Eyes of Truth

The Awakening of the Third Eye and The Heart of Discernment

So often, the world asks us to react.
It asks us to respond to fear, to judgment, to stories that pull us away from our truth.
And when we get caught in those stories, we start to believe they are the truth.

But discernment – the gift of a balanced Third Eye – invites us to pause and look deeper.
It asks: Is what I’m seeing real? Or is it fear dressed up as truth?

The mind loves certainty. It wants to explain, control, understand and label what’s happening.
But certainty rooted in fear is not clarity – it’s illusion – this is detrimental to our individual truth.
The practice of discernment is learning to see through these illusions – to choose not to be led by fear, but by an inner, deeper truth – a knowing.

When we lead with our hearts – versus the mind – we begin to see differently.
We see that much of what we fear is only a shadow – a projection, maybe even an old belief replaying itself.
Discernment helps us step back and ask:

• Is this fear real, or is it a story I’ve carried from the past?
• Is this fear real, or is it a story created from a collective fear?
• Am I looking through the eyes of love, or the eyes of fear?

This doesn’t mean ignoring what we see and feel.
It means allowing every emotion that arises from the things we are seeing outside of us – to be felt. Once we let the emotions be felt – we can then choose to see and feel it clearly. To see through it, not as it.

There is a quote in A Course in Miracles that reminds us that “Perception is a mirror, not a fact.”
What we see reflects the thoughts we choose.
When we choose fear, we see fear.
When we choose love, we see truth.

Three Ways We Experience Truth

1. Relative Truth
   This is what we experience in the moment – the emotion, the story, the reaction.
   It feels real because it’s alive in us right now.
   When we feed it with attention and emotion, it becomes a kind of temporary truth – one that can shift the moment we stop feeding it and allow ourselves to feel it.
   “I am angry” is true in the moment, but anger isn’t who we are. It’s a passing feeling, not a fixed identity. Acknowledging and feeling it – allows us to see beyond it – instead of staying stuck in it.
2. Absolute Truth
   This is truth in the present moment – seen through awareness rather than judgment.
   “The sky is blue” may be true now, until sunset when it becomes orange.
   Both are true – each in its own moment.
   Our truths shift as our awareness expands. What matters most is the clarity of the one who is witnessing. The observant, discerning mind versus the mind, controlled or conditioned by fear.
3. Internal Truth
   This is the deeper knowing that comes when we quiet the noise of the world. This can be achieved by sitting in silence for short periods of time. This deeper knowing is the voice of intuition that isn’t based in fear or conditioning.
   When fear or anger arises, discernment asks us not to act immediately – but to feel first.
   Beneath fear is a softness yearning to be felt. Beneath anger is vulnerability. Beneath both lies truth.

Internal truth lives in the still space between thoughts – in the willingness to slow down and feel.
When we pause long enough to look inward, we begin to see beyond the illusions of this world – beyond fear, guilt, shame, grief and old stories.
We begin to see through the eyes of the heart, through the eyes of the Soul.

The Heart of Discernment

Discernment is not about resisting fear or pretending it isn’t there.
It’s about recognizing it for what it is – a veil. (False. Evidence. Appearing. Real.)
And once we name it, it begins to dissolve.

So today, I invite you to practice a simple shift:
When fear arises, when judgment arises, when the world feels heavy –
instead of asking, “What’s wrong?” ask:
What is this trying to show me? What deeper truth is waiting to be seen?

Because happiness, peace and clarity are not dependent on the outer world.
They are the benefits of seeing beyond it – where our deeper truths and inner peace lives.
They live in the choice to pause and then look with the eyes of love, not fear.

That is the heart of discernment.
That is the awakening of the Third Eye.
That is freedom.

Namaste my friends;
Leslie 🙏💙
780 722-3442
leslie@wellnessdefined.ca