Consider portals as doorways that are always open. All of life is a portal. Portals await you. Every day you step through is a portal. You walk through portals.
All is portal. When all is portal, all is Oneness. There is no reason to count or assign signs. A portal doesn’t have to have its name in a brass plate. It doesn’t need knobs. It has openness. Anything but open portal is unnecessary.
When all is openness, there are no thresholds to step over either.
A flower has many petals, and yet it is one flower.
There is Oneness within you, and there is Oneness without, and yet that is a contradiction that exists to make a point because there is no inside or outside you. There is only you. And that is another way to say that there is only love. Not a particle of anything else exists. All else is illusion.
You buy illusion and you sell it. We can call illusion vanity. And we can call vanity ego. Ego by any other name is still ego. You don’t have to flaunt your ego, nor do you have to pound it. Just know that in the world of Oneness, ego is an illusion, and illusions do not exist. They exist in your mind, but then they are only thoughts, and thoughts come and go, and thoughts are, when all is said and done, only thoughts.
Keep the thoughts you like. They are illusion too, yet they open the portals that, apart from illusion, need no opening. When you perceive that something is closed to you, you have seen a portal as closed. There is nothing in the universe that is closed to you. However, your mind may be closed to it. As a matter of fact, you slam closed nonexistent doors. Let your thought be rather that you fling these imagined doors wide-open.
Open does not have to mean that there is also closed. Every word does not have to have its opposite, and you do not have to oppose anything, for consider yourself as a portal, and you need no doors. There can be chambers without doors, as with your heart, for instance, And yet, when all hearts beat as One, there is no need for chambers either.
You live in a chamberless portalless world with man-made signs that you take as gospel. You see a sign that says Do Not Enter, and you believe it. You see arrows that point you in various directions. All the while, there is only one direction to go in. There is not even that because you have nowhere to go because you are there now. You are here now.
You have all kinds of logical reasons to defy what I say. In fact, you ask for proof. You would like an argument. You would like to defend that life is not what I think but rather what you think. You would like to propose that I don’t know what you go through and what you feel.
I know what life on Earth is like. It is like this and that, but because something is like something doesn’t mean that it is really that. Fork tines are like a hand, but they are not a hand.
Beloveds, if you must consider that doors are closed to you, then learn how to walk through doors. Nothing has to stop you from entering Heaven now.