We see things as we want them, not want things as we see them

The ancient Hebrew people described "to want" as "to see".

They also had an uncanny habit of connecting one's deepest desires with the ability to see certain things. Where we would say "I want that with my whole heart" they used to say "I see that with my whole eye". If your eye was bad, you desire was for evil, yet if your eye was good, you desired good things.

This is what they taught: your ability to see things in life, is directly connected to the desires you hold most dear.

Even Jesus talks about this when he comments on possessions and having stuff, saying that "the eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!".

There's a couple of ways this plays out in our lives:

1. We only feel as rich or as poor as the people we constantly compare ourselves with;
2. If we desperately want something, we will find an opportunity to acquire it behind every corner;
3. If something ways heavy on our hearts, we will read it into every situation;

In short, sometimes when we seem blind to something, it might have more to do with our desire to care, than with our ability to see. 

Its not easy to simply open our eyes to the realities of the world we live in, if we can't also bring ourselves to want different things. We almost never see the world as it is, but we perceive it as we are.

Its what lives in your heart, that drives your sight.

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