Creating Your World

Our minds are amazing beyond comprehension. Think of what has come out of the human mind. All human experience is created by our minds--even our responses to happenstances in the environment are a product of the mind--people respond differently to identical external stimuli. Our minds fill up over time with stories about usually random life experiences. These can become the filter through which we view "reality", ourselves, others, relationships and life. Because of this filter, we are creating, so speak, our world. I've given the example before of two men on a hilltop overlooking a beautiful farm in the valley below, sun setting on the horizon beyond. One is thinking, "I know the man who owns this farm. He never worked an honest day in his life. Inherited all his money from his wife's family. I could've had a place like this if my investments had gone better," etc.
Inside he feels deprived, diminished. The other man is thinking, "My God! How beautiful!" Inside he is filled with awe and gratitude. Each man is creating a different world for himself in response to the same environment.
When we extrapolate that, we see that the psycho-spiritual evolution of the human family is a matter of the mind of humans generally. What we (humans) are setting our minds upon is manifesting in the outer world--the world of form and physical substance; and more importantly, the world of human experience. We create wars. And we create harmony. But we are mostly unaware that we are doing this, or the internal motivating factors that drive us. How many humans on this planet would boastfully assert that they desired warfare? That it is something we should pursue? Then what set of intra- and interhuman dynamics drives such behaviors?
Answering this question is an aspect of our psycho-spiritual growth. It is what Christ leads us into. And as we are transformed by the Truth of Christ--the Truth that He claims to be--we transform the world. We become Light in the darkness from which all violence, hatred and fear derive. We discover and inhabit the freedom that is God-given; we experience it as a progressive inner reality. The energy field that we are generating, and that others resonate with, is transformed toward peace and compassion. We have good will toward all, even our "enemies".  We can confront spiritual blindness [evil] courageously, without fear or hatred. We begin to create heaven on earth.