“A seeing eye reads the whole Book of Creation from a single tree leaf."
Throughout the history of humanity, all religions and ancient teachings essentially convey the same thing. Only the ways of expression differ. They all speak of a supreme being that created us somewhere up there, which no one can see. Faced with this situation, people generally choose one of the following three behaviors. Mostly, societies blindly say they believe in it, using many different names like God, Allah, Higher Power, Universe, Creator, etc. In fact, what they believe in is not the Creator. How a person can believe in an unseen, unheard, and uncommunicated entity? This is to believe in those who say that Heaven and Hell exist. Some go for a more moderate approach and say, "If it really exists and I don't believe, I'll burn. So I’d better believe, what would I lose?" They are also right. The third attitude is a complete rejection. Some say, "I don't believe in something I can't see," while others say, "Even if it exists, if it has created so much evil in the world, I also refuse to believe in it, I rebel against it." They are also right from their perspective. And some see the entire existence and the system, not as a perfect plan but as a coincidence.
It is true that we cannot see the supreme power that created everything, but it is also true that it gives us instruments and intuition to feel it. If a person can succeed in seeing this world, its light and magnificence everywhere and in everyone, in good and bad, in wise and foolish, in rich and poor, then that person begins to develop respect and tolerance because they begin to see that all humanity is essentially no different from His messengers. God is seen in one who glorifies Him. If our eyes are closed, if we are deaf, even if we wait for millions of years, we can never find a savior, a Messiah. The Messiah and the savior are within us. The only thing we need to do is to look with seeing eyes and see Him in everything.
We don't need to go to church, mosque, synagogue to see Him. We will not find Him in holy places, temples, or through someone else and through the recipes given as if it is a meal recipe. He is already everywhere and with us at all times. Only when we open our hearts and call upon Him and listen, then we can begin to feel Him. Those who seek in specific environments, or those who think they are blessed and grateful by just looking at a picture of Jesus, will have wasted their entire lives. He hides His grace and gratitude in the gaze of a baby, in the smile of an innocent child, in an animal, in nature. Unless we can see these, He will never be our savior. A person's savior is themselves, Messiah can only be born from our own enlightenment and perception.
In this era, with materialism at its peak, unfortunately, humanity sees not what is real, but what is intended to be shown to us. The world in fact is within an unreality that does not really exist. Humanity, even though the ones who speak of religion and God, has never stopped worshiping idols. Only the methods and disciplines have changed according to our times and conditions. There are many objects and people we idolize without realizing it. At our hardest moments, He reaches out to us through someone else, sends an answer through a person, a book, or a movie. In response, we feel gratitude, admiration, love for those He made His messengers, or we fear them, becoming their puppets, seeing them as stronger and higher. We see wisdom in others. We get angry at others, love others, admire others, fear others. This means worshiping idols. Now, in addition to religions and ancient teachings, a New Age movement has started. They offer various methods to attract the light above and to be a channel and a messenger and take people’s money for this. The only thing they sell is hope or placebo effect. In this sense, they are other versions of religions. They make people dependent and addicted on certain objects. For instance, people pay thousands of dollars to attract the energy of a stone. The same energy in that stone is also in the person themselves, and even far more. Any object distances people from themselves, their own inner energy, and their direct connection with the Creator. Unfortunately, we see all power, wisdom, and salvation in objects and methods sold for money or in some leaders and teachers. We are gradually losing the power of our own essence.
He is everywhere, we can see Him in His sages, prophets, messengers, even within ourselves, in nature, in a tiniest particle. To do this, we need to learn to close our ears and eyes to the outer and open our hearts inward. All creation speaks to a living heart at each moment.
