2 Corinthians 4:6 Meaning Seeing It Is God Who Said

The same consciousness that brings light out of darkness shines within you as your own awareness. You do not have to travel anywhere to find it. It is already here, in the heart, quieter than thought, the light by which you know anything at all.

To see it in the face of an awakened being is simply to recognize it in yourself, for there is only one presence looking out through countless forms. The glory is not far off in the sky. It is the light of awareness in you at this very moment, and recognizing it is what awakening actually is.

The same power that first broke light out of darkness shines within a person, and the place it shines is the heart, the seat of what he accepts and feels. The light it gives is knowledge, a sudden knowing of the glory of God, and that glory is seen in a face. Jesus Christ names your own wonderful human imagination, buried within you and unknown until it is experienced firsthand.

So the knowledge is not learned from books but witnessed inwardly, when the son appears and a person beholds God's glory in that face and finds it his own. Nothing shines from a distant sky. The light rises inside the reader, and in the face of his own imagination made visible he sees the glory he had been seeking outside himself.

The same command that once broke open the first morning still works in the dark of a person, striking light where there had only been shadow. The heart dulled by despair, sure its inside is a closed and lightless place, has forgotten who speaks to darkness. A mirror gone grey is not thrown out; it is polished until it can hold a face again.

So a person turns toward that light on purpose, in prayer or a moment of stillness, and lets it do the work no scrubbing of his own could manage. Where the glory becomes knowable, in a single human face, the Giver of light is already present, shining out rather than staying hidden.

Light shines out of darkness, not into it from somewhere else. The heart is not a room waiting for a lamp to be carried in; the darkness itself, when entered rather than fled, opens and turns luminous. This is why the search outward always fails: the seeker is standing on what he is looking for.

Encountering it in a face means the awakened one becomes a mirror, and what is seen there is one's own hidden luminosity, borrowed for a moment until it is recognized as never having been borrowed. Knowledge here is not information gathered about the divine. It is the seeing itself, arriving the moment the mind's noise settles and nothing stands between the watcher and what is.