The origins of matter arise from primordial, eternal energy-what science calls the Big Bang. Everything was born from that dazzling blaze of light. If our roots are the same, why do we still see so much that seems dark-night, for example?

In truth, the night is not as dark as we imagine. It simply shines in ways we cannot observe.

According to scientific findings, around 99% of the radiation energy emitted by the Sun is released in the form of neutrinos-something we cannot directly sense. Only about 1% is emitted as electromagnetic waves: visible light, along with other forms of radiation the human eye cannot perceive.

The light we can see-visible light-is only a tiny sliver of the vast electromagnetic spectrum. We may assume our eyes can observe everything in this world, yet a great part of reality lies entirely outside our range of perception.

In the animal kingdom, many birds, reptiles, and insects can see ultraviolet light. Snakes can detect infrared and distinguish their target by heat-regions radiating energy that the human eye registers as darkness. For a snake, the night is a brightly lit world: wherever there is warmth, it can see, while we cannot.

Beyond that, there are countless other 'kinds' of light: radio waves, X-rays, gamma rays, microwaves… In reality, everything shines in its own way. All objects emit electromagnetic radiation due to the thermal motion of the molecules and atoms that make them up. This radiation carries energy away-and objects can also absorb one another's energy. Emitting and absorbing radiation is how the universe exchanges heat, exchanges energy, and sustains life.

Something similar is true of sound. The human hearing range is limited to roughly 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. We cannot hear infrasound or ultrasound. Bats, however, emit ultrasonic waves and receive the returning echoes to orient themselves in space-they fly through the night without crashing.

So we are living in a universe overflowing with light, sound, and energy, yet we perceive only a very small fraction of it. The fact that we cannot see something does not mean it does not exist-yet we still form judgments based on the narrow scope of what we can perceive.

It is like a frog looking up at the sky through the mouth of a well and assuming that is the whole world.

Here is a story about the relationship between Heart and Mind-offered for contemplation:

A university lecturer asked his students:

Did God create everything in the world?

Many students replied:

Yes-God created everything.

The lecturer asked again:

If God created everything, then He also created evil. And if 'our works define who we are', does that mean God is evil?

The whole lecture theatre fell silent.

One student raised his hand and asked:

Sir, does cold exist?

The lecturer answered:

Of course it does.

The student said:

Sir, in fact cold does not exist. In physics, 'cold' is simply the absence of heat.

At absolute zero (-273°C), matter no longer vibrates. That is the absence of energy-not a separate 'thing'. We invented the concept of 'cold' to describe the lack of heat.

The student asked again:

Does darkness exist?

The lecturer said:

Yes.

The student smiled:

Sir, darkness also does not exist. Darkness is merely the absence of light.

We can measure light, but we cannot measure darkness. We can measure brightness, but we cannot define a 'degree of dark'. Darkness is a concept we created when light is absent.

Then the student asked:

So does evil exist?

Now, looking uncertain, the lecturer replied:

Of course it does. I see it every day: murder, war, crime…

The student spoke softly:

Evil does not exist, sir. Evil is simply the absence of goodness.

Evil is like darkness and cold: a concept we created to describe a state in which something good is missing.

God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith or love-things that truly exist, like heat and light.

Evil is what happens when a human being does not believe that God's love is present in their heart-just as cold appears when there is no heat, and darkness appears when there is no light.

And that is the final lesson:

Everything is Light.

There is no darkness-only places where light has not yet been recognised.

There is no evil-only places where love has not yet been lit.

When we understand this, we stop judging, stop piding, and see that everything in the universe shines-each in its own way.

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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