Surrender to Your Heart

Heavenletter #3757 Published on: March 9, 2011
God said:

Pure is the heart that loves. Love takes care of all the obstacles. When there is love, obstacles to love have no choice but to fade. Love wins. Obstacles don’t. Love and obstacles do not coexist. What was an obstacle is no longer an obstacle.

Even if for a moment, obstacles lag. When love surmounts obstacles, obstacles by the very nature of love come down to size. Obstacles, like ego, are not as big or high-faluting as they seem. Obstacles, like ego, are frail.

Obstacles to love are evidence of ego.

You were taught and learned a standard that said: ”Of course, you don’t love here or like that.” Obstacles to love are a matter of pride. In truth, there is not anyone who does not merit your love. My love is full and avoids no corners. If you are to give My love, then you are to love as I do love. You give love like Mine. My love is unrestricted love, for My love within you comes from the heart, not the mind. Sometimes the mind is just too clever to love. The mind is too smart for its own good. The mind plants its feet and dares not depart.

Love is not something that is weighed.

Because you love everyone does not mean that you are obliged to everyone. Love is not – I repeat – love is not obligation. Obligation is love enchained. Love enchained is not love. I adjure you to love and to love all. Because you love and someone loves you does not obligate you to subjugate your will. You are not going to marry everyone you love. Love means going by the heart and not mind. Obligation is of the mind.

When it comes to love, when it comes to the state of loving, love is not denied. Love the reprobate. Love the judger. Love all those who do not know about love and the range of love. The ball is in your court. You love. You just love.

The naughty boy is just as worthy of love as the obedient boy.

The man with a closed heart is just as worthy of love as the man with an open loving heart. This is what it means that you love all. Your love is not respective of status, performance, or judgment.

If love is too big a word for you, then choose the word appreciate, or choose the word blessing. Appreciate and bless. Someone with a closed heart exists in the world. Is he not brave? Bless him for his courage then.

Maybe you were that restricted heart once. And look how much your heart has opened. Look at you now. Someone, or many, appreciated and blessed you. They saw that you were a leaf from God’s tree. For a moment, or for a day, or always, they saw Whose child you are. They saw beyond your daily manifestation. They were not trying to improve or change you. They simply saw what I do see.

What I am capable of, you are capable of. The question is: Are you willing?

Are you willing to defray your willful mind and surrender to your heart? No longer deny the wealth of your heart.

What you surrender to is Truth.

Be brother or sister to all. No longer separate yourself.

Love the lost lambs as well as the found ones.

Love for a change. Love first. Love without revision. Love because everyone in the world can use your love. Love because you need your love. Love for no other reason than that the sun shines. Unrestrict your love so that the sun shines for all.

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too big a word

On March 9th, 2011 Jochen (not verified) says:

Neither "loving" nor "appreciating" nor "blessing" works for everyone. In that sense, they are all "too big words". The problem with the man having a closed heart is not his closed heart but his actions: cheating, manipulating, lying, filling only his own pockets and unhesitatingly explaining everything away as being for some noble cause.

Maybe you were that restricted heart once. Well, from what I'm writing here, I still am to some considerable degree, don't You think?

The question is: Are you willing? I'm not sure. In some respects, I feel willing; in others, evidently, I do not. Can I will myself to be willing? Would I want to will myself to be willing? This whole thing is rather confusing. There are probably others who respond to this kind of teaching. I don't.

Which brings us back to that other teaching term that is equally unhelpful, ego. If you felt too good for too long, think about ego.

What it really takes us back to, of course, is mind. At last a word that is not loaded and can't be used to beat yourself up! And on mind, thank God, there are Heavenletters that are truly helpful. The question I have been asking over the years in so many ways is, What if I find myself unable to do all those things that are suggested in Heavenletters and elsewhere? The answer I seem to be hearing from a few beloved Heavenletters goes something like this: As with water, when the flow appears to be blocked, you are going to find some cracks to seep through.

I'm still seeping, trying to seep past those words that are too big.

Felt Each of Your Words

On March 9th, 2011 kaye (not verified) says:

Dear Jochen,

Your expressed feelings and emotion are felt deeply. Being restricted from Love can be difficult especially if we FEEL and are Aware there is restriction. I only just realised, while contemplating today's Heaven Letter, that to feel restricted from Opening the Gate to giving and receiving Love is a sign of Latent Will. If we didn't feel closed or restricted, it denotes that there is no feeling or acknowledgment of closed-ness and thus nothing is curbed. Once there is acknowledgement and a feeling of restriction, it may act as the Will to un-restrict the heart. But sometimes, will is a scary thought. Having the Will to open a Door that has been closed for so long is bound to be daunting, scary... not bound to... it is. The will to turn the door handle is there, but what may gush out is an overwhelming thought. Then we question Will itself. Do I will to will? (Beautifully said, Dear Jochen) I hope this made sense, at least a little because i can understand and feel your response.

Light and Love

a door

On March 10th, 2011 Jochen (not verified) says:

Back from my Alpine Wednesday together with my wife and five friends, I find your comment (and everyone else's) very stimulating, Kaye. Let me use the door you mentioned to try and make a very personal point that is not intended to be critical or disapproving in any way, just my purely subjective perspective.

That doors can be used metaphorically at all, as in Blake's "doors of perception", means that we have experienced material doors and know what they are and do. From there, it appears to make sense to assume the existence of immaterial doors as well, a closedness of heart or mind. If I have used the word "door" in that sense over some time, that sense becomes commonplace, even obvious. I feel I know what I'm speaking about. But what I'm finding recently is that this certainty of knowing what I'm speaking about is leaving me and what I'm left with are words that don't swing open when I push against them. Put differently: I would open any experienceable door with not a moment's hesitation, no matter what imagined horrors may wait behind it, but I have no idea how to open a door that consists of nothing but the word "door". As long as "door" is not translated into something I can actually experience, it remains empty and lifeless, and the meaning it is believed to transport is a ghost painted some color to make it appear real.

I feel increasingly that this holds true for much of what passes as knowledge, in fact for all knowledge that purports to know about abstract things like for instance separation. It is all just words and concepts bandied about until I believe there is something real behind them.

But I do not want to initiate an epistemological discussion. I only meant to give you some minimum of background for the point I want to make. And the point I want to make is in a simple question: Where is everything when I am not thinking about it? Answer: it is nonexistent.

It is neither necessary nor helpful to think thoughts that make your heart feel less than good. If your thoughts don't hurt, you will probably go on thinking them which is all right, of course. But if they do hurt, maybe badly, you may first try to think even more thoughts, better thoughts, theories about thought, healing thoughts and so on, but eventually it becomes clear that ending them is what you truly want. At first you think it's not possible; you are told it's irresponsible; is it not like trying to deny truth? But the real truth is that you want painful thoughts to end, and since that is the real truth of your heart, the day will come when something or someone tells you the time has come for you to walk away. That's what Heaven #3754, May Your Mind Give Peace, is doing for me now. I have been feeling better every day since it appeared.

Am I loving enough? When I get weighed, will I be found wanting? The answer, the new answer to all questions of this kind is Who cares? If you managed to send your mind to the beach to people-watch, there will be no one around to think thoughts of a depressing kind. And that is the one thing that remains for me to do: asking my mind to get off my back. The amazing thing is that it is not even opposed to the idea but … itself looking forward to the peace of silence.

This is why I tend get impatient even with Heavenletters. Sometimes I want to say, Dear God, can we not keep things as simple as they are? Why even talk about love? Will not everything take care of itself as soon as my mind stops messing things up? I have not seen a conclusive answer in Heavenletters yet. My own answer is: Yes, indeed.

I love truth

On March 9th, 2011 Emilia says:

Don't ask me to love first. I cannot love what I see. Open my heart and show me the Truth, so that I can truly see and love it.

You just said it straight,

On March 9th, 2011 Normand Bo... says:

You just said it straight, dear Emilia. How can we love what we see without judgment?
How can we love Hitler (it is only one out of a thousand examples) and see in him the beautiful flower God was talking about in yesterday's Heavenletter? How can we humanly see the divine flower beyond what we see right now?

Well, we have to stop using our human body's eyes. Because it is absolutely impossible otherwise. But who will show you the truth if not yourself, the day you decide not to be a "human" anymore? I think that, reaching a certain point, we have to acknowledge we reached the maximum of what humanhood is all about: a transition from animals to angels.

Let's admit it. We live our human life with appearances. Appearances deceive all the time, even when at a certain stage they might seduce. Appearances deceive, yet they can be changed with a little imagination, make-up and botox. But Reality does not change. It is changeless. What we call human reality is only appearance. The Reality, which is beyond our actual perception, should not deceive us at all and if we fail to see beyond appearances we are deceived. Reality that deceives us is only the Reality that we reduce to forms, which are capable of changes but they are just variations of forms. But the Reality is changeless. It is this that makes it real and keeps it separate from all appearances. It must transcend all form to be itself. It cannot change. Yet, this is the Reality that we have a hard time to see. Reality does not have any form and that is our only real problem: we cannot grab this formless Reality. We have to know it is there without seeing it.

"We cannot grab this

On March 9th, 2011 Emilia says:

"We cannot grab this formless Reality", indeed, Normand, we can just claim our Truth and be receptive to a "light" that will give us true vision. To be receptive we should be as empty and vigilant as possible and this is our task.

I guess we will recognize

On March 10th, 2011 Normand Bo... says:

I guess we will recognize we see a situation Truly when the result for us is Peace. Faith is the inner vision of Reality which the body's eyes can't perceive. Only faith brings certainty in this world. Faith is the price of certainty as God requires our faith that He is Real.

faith

On March 10th, 2011 Emilia says:

There is Faith, yes, and there is Gnosis. Faith can carry us to the door of Knowledge where Truth waits to be known. "To know" and "to see" is the same.

Restricted to Unrestricted

On March 9th, 2011 kaye (not verified) says:

"The man with a closed heart is just as worthy of love as the man with an open loving heart. This is what it means that you love all. Your love is not respective of status, performance, or judgment."

Dear Lord,

Thank you once again for Your Divine message of Love. Surrendering to the Will of Love is almost relieving, dear Father. Whenever a heart feels heavy, it is comfort to know that There is Love that will never Leave our Side, even when we feel Love is not there. Why dear Father, should one judge a heart that has been restricted from experiencing Love. Love is there regardless, even if it does not reach the conscious awareness of a restricted heart. I, too, Dear Father, feel and can understand restricting Love. Closed, from Love - giving, receiving, and accepting - takes effort to do. See, many people think restricting love or remaining closed in the heart is a cowardly thing to do. Firstly, this is already judgement, dear Lord - which goes against the Principle Rule of love - non judgement. Thus the person who says the restricter is a coward for being such, they may not have completely understood or embraced the essence of True Love, the essence of their being. We are all on the path to learning the truth of Unconditional Love. Secondly, Since love is our Nature, our essence who we are, we are actually going against the force of our very essence when we restrict Love and this takes all our effort to restrict Love, is this cowardly Father? Usually a coward is a person who takes the easy way out... But the easiest way Is the Way of Love. One who is closed from love is not a Coward. but may be responding to circumstances. We know not of what another has been through in life until they open up and divulge their story to us. And even then we haven't a perfect idea of how one must have been impacted upon. But, father, Your Love can Heal all wounds father. And the restricted heart is just a heart waiting for Your Divine Love to unwrap the tight bandage around their pulsating heart to set the Love that is already there free to circulate through it. For the heart to absorb Your Love, every ounce, Dear Lord. And once, even just a tiny part of that bandage has been removed, love permeates and absorbs - the restricted heart is no longer. Healing begins and they begin to be the unwrapper of other restricted hearts... from the restricted to the unrestricted becomes one... becomes All.

Thank you, Dear Lord and Dear Gloria.

Usually a coward is a person

On March 9th, 2011 Johanne says:

Usually a coward is a person who takes the easy way out... But the easiest way Is the Way of Love. One who is closed from love is not a Coward. but may be responding to circumstances. We know not of what another has been through in life until they open up and divulge their story to us. And even then we haven't a perfect idea of how one must have been impacted upon.

Isn't it the truth that we never know what impact our actions may have on another. It is the primary reason why one must grow into love for the healing of the world.

Emilia, I really understand what you say and what it means...The world is not always easy to love ... unconditionally that is. For God it is easy because His Essence is PURE-LOVE. I am not sure I can achieve this quality and still be alive in this world to become that! It would take too much isolation -peace - quiet - mindlfulness and seclusion to come even close to growing into this type of rose.
Sometime I feel my earthly being can barely regenerate itself before time is up and I have to get up and go to work again helping people (I work as a rna in homecare)

Much LOVE and LIGHT

I suppose, Johanne, that

On March 9th, 2011 Emilia says:

I suppose, Johanne, that only if we "achieve this quality", we would be finally alive in this world.

Jochen, When I read your

On March 9th, 2011 Karen (not verified) says:

Jochen, When I read your response to todays Heavenletter I was truly surprised! For years I have silently sat by and have taken in your responses and thought what a brillant thoughtful individual you are--I will pray that Love shows up when you least expect it! Or maybe you are looking for it in all the wrong places.

Beloved Karen, Jochen is

On March 9th, 2011 Gloria Wen... says:

Beloved Karen, Jochen is indeed a brilliant thoughtful individual! Nothing has changed that. For the life of me, I can't see anything in his comment that isn't honest and open! I don't see anything to be disappointed in!

SURRENDER TO YOUR HEART

On March 9th, 2011 mary moon (not verified) says:

Dearest MAESTRO OF LOVE UNBOUNDED, LOVE CREATIVE, LOVE FORGIVING AND LOVE ETERNALLY EXTENDED TO ALL THAT IS WITH NO RESTRICTIONS

I am in Love with this Letter which reminds me that 'a naughty child is as worthy of Love as an obedient child." And a man with a
closed heart is, again , just as worthy of YOUR love as the man with an open heart.

There is no one who cannot use the love in my heart. And best of all - I choose as of today to follow this beautiful counsel to LOVE FOR NO OTHER REASON BUT THAT THE SUN SHINES. Then when i don't restrict my love to only the seeming "good" ones, the Blazing Sunshine of God's Heart will truly shine for all.

Loving...

On May 10th, 2011 Jim Keller says:

Thank you Mary Moon for your loving words about love. A love so pure...without restraint or constriction. Loving you. Jim and Jimi

love and peace and love

On March 9th, 2011 carmen (not verified) says:

dear God heavenley father,
it so beauteful masseges, am weitteng for longtime, what realey love is,
you writteng this letter about love, i am happy because i am not false,
in my heart, to love eny-one i know, i do love like you seid this letter,
and i do love for Gloria from my heart, is not my mind,
if my mind give order to love it so false, am so thankfulnes to you dear God,
you planted me in my heart to love, thank God you planted in my heart to love you,
and i love all this porum
love and peace and light