WHAT YOUR EYES ARE LIKE, YOU ARE LIKE THAT
The course of the meditation: Sitting or kneeling direct your gaze on God. Stay focused on God for a long time, until you feel that that it cleanses you. Then, with such a clear look, go from one man to another that you know and in each one look only at the light and goodness. Discard all negative experiences with them as a mask and look underneath that what is childish, innocent, God’s, pure. Recognize in each of them your brother who cries out for your love, who begs you not to condemn him. Be determined and do not let the shadow of evil thoughts enter you while you are watching people in your imagination. Finally, thank Jesus for the new eyes.
If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light – Jesus said. If your eyes are dark, then how great will the darkness inside you be?
Good and evil are mixed. No one is completely evil and no one is completely good. If you see only evil in man, you yourself become evil, you enter into the realms of evil and judge and condemn others. If you look at the good side in people, you become good, optimistic, and encourage the development of goodness in others. God is only good. There is no shadow of evil in Him. He created man as good. He „created“ him clean even after sin. The Evil One is evil, seduces people, lies to them, deceives them, cheats them, and directs them against each other.
He is therefore indirectly a murderer of people. He only wants evil, lies, deception, death. He who looks at man negatively looks with his eyes. Evil is like darkness. Goodness is light. Darkness is driven away only by bringing in light. Therefore, if we want to fix man, we should not and must not warn of evil, but bring good into it. Loving the enemy is the only way to get rid of his danger permanently. He who sees in man not evil but good, is on God’s side, has God’s eyes. He who sees evil, not goodness, is on the side of evil and has his gaze. Not to judge and not to condemn, to look good – that means to be on God’s side and be strong as God – to have healthy eyes.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
