By Gonny 
There we were…me and my partner…sitting face to face, ready for what we had heard was a sacred exercise: eye gazing. 
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It’s a practice often used in spiritual circles…not to do anything, but simply to be.
No masks, no words, no roles. Just seeing and being seen.
It can be beautiful and confronting at once. In that silence, emotions begin to rise…awkwardness, tenderness, love, sometimes even tears.
You think you are looking into another person’s eyes, but really, you are meeting yourself.
In the light of A Course in Miracles, it’s an exercise in seeing without judgment…a glimpse of true Vision.
As the Course says, “Christ’s Vision looks through me today.”
That is exactly what happens: the ego wants to create a story:
“Who is this?” “What do they think of me?” …while the Holy Spirit quietly invites, “Look beyond the body, see the Light behind the eyes.”
When two people truly see each other without words, there is no ‘I’ and ‘you’ anymore, only Awareness recognizing Itself.
In that moment, you are not two people looking at each other, but one Love reflecting Itself.
During a retrait the teacher had told it would open the heart, dissolve the sense of separation, and reveal the divine spark behind the eyes.
This afternoon I asked my partner if he wanted to try it. He said: okay!
And so, full of good intentions, we began.
It lasted… maybe two minute.
Then came the giggles.
A few seconds later…total explosion…. laughter, tears, and the kind of joy that shakes the body and melts the heart…..the whole divine comedy.
After a while we tried again, seriously this time…breathing in and out!
Within thirty seconds we were both gone…the same unstoppable laughter, like champagne bubbles of the soul.
And suddenly I realized: maybe this was the point.
The ego had tried to make it solemn, spiritual, controlled. But the Holy Spirit doesn’t need control…He needs only willingness.
And when we are truly willing to be real, not “spiritual statues,” all masks collapse. Sometimes they collapse in the sound of laughter.
The Course says, “Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny mad idea… at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh.”
Maybe what happened to us was the opposite…we remembered to laugh again.
For that one instant, we weren’t two bodies trying to meditate.
We were innocent children, laughing at the seriousness of the dream.
It wasn’t mockery, it was freedom…the kind that says, “Oh right, none of this is real anyway.”
The Holy Spirit has a wonderful sense of humor. He knows that joy heals faster than effort. And maybe eye gazing is not about keeping a straight face, but about recognizing the Light so fully that it bursts out of you as laughter.
So if you ever try this exercise and end up crying from laughing too hard, don’t apologize.
Probably you just touched eternity in the most human way possible! …like we did!
That is what I call holy laughter…when God winks, and you can’t help but laugh back.
With love and light,
G.