The Everythingness of Oneness

God said:

Right at this minute, I am looking into your eyes, and I am looking out through them as well. I am looking out through your eyes, and I am looking into your eyes as well. You know what I mean. We are One, and you are coming closer to that full understanding. Knock, knock, I am the only One here. Who can be knocking at My door but I, Myself. Who can answer the door but I Myself, and the Myself that carries the wayward identity you call yourself.

We have an interesting relationship, you and I. We dance, we sing, we seemingly dance apart in order to swing back together again and whirl across the Universe.

We go steady, you and I. We see each other everywhere We look. I see Myself in everyone, and everyone is yourself as well. All eyes are on Me. There is no else.

I suppose you could consider Me your shadow. It's not like that. I am your Inner Being. I am the wheat germ of what you call yourself.

We have been dance partners, if you can call Us that, for a long long time. There is no one new to meet. We have been going around the mulberry bush forever. I AM Myself. You are Myself.

Let's dance from star to star and find Our One Self. Let's play that the One of Us is two. That is the game We already play. The One of Us is a winner, so We can say that the two of us are winners as well. How can there be more or less of Us when We are All and there isn't anyone else? There is Oneness, and all the rest is an illusion called something else. The something else is often called loneliness or separation or fear or solitariness or independence or self-sufficiency or anger or distress or misunderstanding or another indigestible name.

Let's become more familiar with Oneness and all its layers. The world is complete in Oneness. That is all there is, this Everythingness of Oneness. Oneness talks to itself. It dances with itself. It plays many parts. It can only play them, assume them, take them, act them, and consider them all-consuming and build a life around them. Oneness seems to have many dramas and comedies up its sleeve.

And yet Oneness is pure and not divisive. How can Oneness that is All That Is have so many monkeyshines and allow hurt, anxiety, and so on? How culpable is the dance of Oneness, whirling and twirling with itself, planting trees and underbrush and deserts and oases, canoeing along lakes it makes up as it goes along, plucking stars from a night sky, dropping their light off in streetlamps, making firecrackers and holidays, making a splendid tour de force, setting alarm clocks in the dawning light and beating drums and gongs, gong gong gong. One heartbeat dissembles even when there is no one to dissemble it with. At the same time, We cannot call this game a game of solitaire for there are many cards to be dealt and many hands to collect them, shuffle, and play again. It is a rummy game this game of life We play and believe in so much.

We have imagined that a detour is the main thoroughfare. Of the same street We have made street fairs with rides and urbanity with skyscrapers and sun and wind flowers in handcarts on corners. We have made corners. We have made circles, and nature entertains Us with all its blooming, and We are, We are, and We are One practicing on Broadway, as if this multiplicity were something other than Oneness.

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Imagining the separate

It seems that the trick is to know that the multiplicity is none other than Oneness. Illusion is imagining that the multiplicity is composed of the separate.

Chuck knows a Monkeyshine at first glance

That multiplicity thing is the kicker when were in the forest looking for a tree. Even the birds laugh with us as we frolic in God's playground.

George

an interesting relationship

I love to hear God talk about Oneness and how everything is "just" imagination and how, in that imagination, we can switch from dreading it to absolutely enjoying and loving it and how that is what imagined reality is for: to be enjoyed and loved. I can't hear enough of this – but after the newness wears off, my rebel's mind content at seeing millennia of old thinking overthrown, will it not become boring blather as well?

For a moment, I imagine Heavenletters becoming the new world view, a new philosophy, a new science of life. An awful thought.

What makes Heavenletters different from everything else I have read and heard ist that what they say can be felt. What a relief to hear words that do not only make sense but can be sensed in a mind-soul-body way. Right at this minute, I am looking into your eyes, and I am looking out through them as well. I am looking out through your eyes, and I am looking into your eyes as well. When I'm lucky, and I am more and more often, I can feel this the moment I read it, I feel the Godness, the Allness, the Oneness as an almost physical sensation in these eyes for a moment.

We survived those millennia in which truth was essentially something to be found out and figured out. What a brave species we are.

older than time

All I have been, seen, done or thought, not me, but You have seen, have been, have done. There isn't but You going towards Yourself and the arrival isn't but You knocking at Your door...

Oh dear, not seeing God as

Oh dear, not seeing God as someone else isn't easy at first. It's probably the same for all of us, and no wonder after those eons of indoctrination with God's otherness and transcendence. But there really is no difference. It is your door. (It's a little cheeky to say this since I'm not really there yet except for the odd second now and then.)

"your door"

Well, I am not seeing God as someone else, but Myself as Him, my seeking as He seeking Himself and returning to His Home where it happens to be His door.
Anyway, if that door is in fact "my door", I will not open to everybody and you, please, give me more than one "odd second" to answer.

The mind and the heart.

God does not make the difference between His Mind and His Heart. He is One with them. Still, we are those who feel that the mind and the heart are separated, that they are mutually exclusive. Do we really have to choose one or the other like in a competition?
This perception might well be the result of our linear thinking where thought can only go in one direction, that is forward. The heart does not have to go anywhere; the heart is already multidirectional. Mind and heart pertain to our very dynamics as Human Beings. Isn't the basis of our earthly experience that the mind (intellect) and the heart (emotions) play together the Game we call Awareness?

Dear Normand, what I

Dear Normand, what I understood from many Heavenletters is that mind and heart are not mutually axclusive or in competition at all. I think you are right when you find this kind of thinking a little suspect. But the (apparent) agent of (apparent) separation, called ego, uses mind and not heart.

We will, in time, become very sure in distinguishing whether mind is operating as heart's partner or as ego's bully and intelligence man. It seems we are not quite there yet, but once we are, mind will be beautiful and innocent.

Your right Jochen.

Your right Jochen. Heavenletters does not make that distinction of course. But in our daily back-and-forth awareness, it is the ego that separates mind and heart through mentalization and emotions. What else better can Ego do than SEPARATE what in essence is One? Remember, we are quite lower than 20%...

"ego separates mind and heart"

...or is it the mind creating Ego and separating it from the Self?
...or is it the mind in itself to be separated, cutted in two?
...or is it that both the mind and the ego are created by the Self, as the illusion of the One?
...or is it that I get crazy?

Illusions are indeed

Illusions are indeed trickey. That's the name of the game. We don't have to take it too seriously.

Probably crazy. At least

Probably crazy. At least when we insist on figuring it out. Reality cannot be anything but very very very simple. Figuring is permissible only as long as it's fun. If not, get out! (Or is that what you are implying anyway?)

That's it! I have some other

That's it!
I have some other questions to delight in, as Normand associates mind with intellect and heart with emotions.
Do emotions belong to the heart? Or do they belong to the mind, being emotions dependent from thoughts?
Is it true that I smell and see and touch thanks to my mind but not thanks to my logic?
Then mind must be intellect, emotions and mechanics.
Heart is the knowing beyond the three, very simple knowing, as you say.

There are Heavenletters at

There are Heavenletters at least on the question of emotions. The gist of it being that emotions are always due to interpretation and to that extent mind (as you said in other words). But more importantly, what I'm finding is that once Heavenletters have pointed things out, it becomes easier to simply feel what is the matter with them, and questions about mind, intellect, heart and whatnot become a little strange and incomprehensible. Oh, maybe it's only I who is strange and incomprehensible.

"ego separates mind and heart"

...or is it the mind creating Ego and separating it from the Self?

For me is Yes, it is the mind who create Ego and make separation with the Self,
We are too mental and not enough in the heart,
To be in the heart is to be in the divine Self, is to be in the natural joy and pure confidence
but our mental puts us in Ego = in the control, in the fears and negative emotions, so we have always to make an effort to go out of the mind and try to stay quiet in the peace of our heart,
where there is the divine Self.

Is what I feel...

With Love

Shanthi

Shanthi and Jochen

Shanthi, I feel you feel well.

Jochen, this time I don't dare to say I agree on "everything" you say.

THE EVERYTHINGNESS OF ONENESS

Dearest MAESTRO, GOD-CREATOR AND LOVER OF ALL THAT IS:

Even the world of street fairs with rides, and urbanity with skyscrapers, and sun and wind,
and flowers in handcarts on corners. We have made corners, and we've made circles, and
nature entertains us with all its blooming and We are, We are, and We are One practicing
on Broadway as if this multiplicity were something other than ONENESS.

Yes, WE do create so much and believe in so much! YOU ask "how can there be so
much loneliness, and neurosis and anxiety, so many monkeyshines in ONENESS? How
can there be what we sometimes call Independence and self sufficiency and distress in
our playing of ONENESS? How can ONENESS have so many dramas and so many comedies up its sleeve?"

Yet, today I am stopping all along these avenues and boulevards and I will be saying:
GOD IS LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THROUGH MY EYES. Then I'll ask , "how can
I see things ANEW, THINGS FRESH AND PURE AND LOVING? TODAY I AM ANNOUNCING IS GOING TO BE A BRILLIANTLY CREATIVE DAY.

God and Myself

I love heavenletter #3365, The Everythingness of Oneness. So many images to play with, so rich with tenderness. Here are two quotes about it. And here's a poem I wrote, too. I am grateful beyond words for our connection. Love, Mary

The Everlasting is shapeless, birthless, breathless, mindless, above everything, outside everything, inside everything....the inmost Self of all--The Upanishads, Yeats’ translation

Language is the limitation of mind; therefore, do not expect the unlimited to leap forth into full expression through the limited. Words never express what God is.
--Charles Fillmore

God and Myself

To me these three words, “God and myself”
are irritating, teeth-grinding, broken-shell low-down
lying words that don’t mean two hoots of Truth.
I want them to mean the Oneness of God and myself
But they suggest twoness. They ruffle my feathers.
The little “and” looks so innocent, but this “and”
is a fast-pecking blue jay, a rascal gobbling my inheritance.
I want to shoot it.
Really, though, I know the little “and” is not to blame.
Its daddy, Mind, and its mama, Language, aren’t to blame either.
I may be the wrong one, asking words to help me write a poem
about the inconceivable, inexpressible oneness of God and myself.
Egghh. Here are these three truth-sucking words again.
Now I remember wild precious heron’s child, Metaphor.
Begging her presence, I pray, and she flies to me, settles with me
smooths my hair and whispers, “Relax, Sweet Mary.
God is a glorious bird and you are Her song.” Ahhh.
I can live with that. I’ll sing that with God I belong.

Mary's use of ink makes us think!

Sweet Mary, thanks for bring Charles Filmore to our attention. Too few know that he is a sparkle of eternal light.

And the Upanishads sprinkled as God's bath powder in your sweet way of expression.

Thanks for singing your very own song of love to us.

George

Gloria is this rehearsal? Come on now, tells us the truth.

I'm groping for words to express the wonderment at this fantastic line of expression. Just listen to God saying: "I'm looking into your eyes and out through them because we are ONE." I wonder who winds her clock to come up with such clear splashes of Glory. Perhaps she's found a restaurant to eat at that we need to know about.

I swear, He deals from the bottom of the deck in this card game because He knows the end from the beginning and seems to be waiting for us to catch on that the cards He dealt us amount to a full house and can't be beaten.

How can we stop laughing when we read about this wonderful game He invented that includes walking through the park, playing with the kids, helping a wounded soldier, holding a darling close, and now about to amble through those glorious Gates of Forever! Wow! How can we thank Gloria enough for pushing those doors wide open?

We even get to giggle at the Monkeyshines even when they hurt some at first but then show what they were teaching us hungry, happy kids. He could have eased off on the alarm clocks and the time thing that goes so darn fast. But His Wisdom takes the cake, or doughnuts. Thanks dear One.

George

My personal problem with the idea of my Oneness with God

Why can I accept: “The world is complete in Oneness. That is all there is, this Everythingness of Oneness” and not so easily accept, as a previous Heavenletter suggests: “I am God”? This “I am God” stuff scares me, but it simply must be so. Maybe my fears arise out of the images I have witnessed of insane people thinking they are George Washington or Jesus or some such when, obviously, they are not and have lost all touch with reality as we know it. Maybe the distinction is in realizing that, while I am God, so is everyone else, and every thing else, and we are all part of each other. Maybe that is the difference between an enlightened soul and individual who is stark-raving mad and out of touch?

I am God means you are the

I am God means you are the creator of yourself. Have you some problem with the reality you created for yourself? yes, of course.
So, dear friend, this is the difficult to approach We are God. Leave your heavy sack there, and get up and look around you. Now you can create news for you and the past doesn't matter anymore. Don't try to clean it. Leave your heavy sack there. Hugs

George Washington

This is utterly hilarious, Chuck! So amusing. You are right, can you imagine all those little selves ( often microscopic selves ) going around and proclaiming to the winds "I am God". What a band of "out of touch" it would be.
I wait to say so, until I will be able to speak with my Heart and for My Self.

Thanks, ladies

Thanks ladies, your words always brighten my day.

You know, another thought just occurred to me as I read your words. When I use the word "God" I still have a lot of old baggage lurking behind and attached to this image. The "God" of my childhood was separate from our world, infinitely better than and unimaginably more powerful than any of His children and His creations. It is still alittle hard to say this word "God" and feel the embrace of total love, total support and the complete commitment of the realization that we are just One Being in our illusive, mutiple forms.

You are so right, pitta, I need to leave my heavy sack behind! And, Emilia, you are right also, my silliness can be hilarious! I, too, must wait for my words to more completely carry the beat of my heart.

Knock, knock, I am the only

Knock, knock, I am the only One here. Who can be knocking at My door but I, Myself. Who can answer the door but I Myself

Knock, knock, I am the only One here

Poetry

«I am looking out through

«I am looking out through your eyes, and I am looking into your eyes as well. You know what I mean». Since God creates ( I use the present tense voluntarily) each of us as an aspect of Him He wants to experiment, and since each aspect of Him must go back to Him (I should also use "is always back to him"), no wonder that it is He who is knocking at His Door and answering the door through each of His Aspects. This is what I understand of "being Quantum" rather than "linear". Simplicity is Instantaneity, not space-time linearity. That is where our confusion comes from. Hence are we aspects of God and/or God Himself? Can we be both at the same time, since there is only One? I guess the answer resides in the sense of mystery which means to be mute or silent. In Silence, mind and heart get along together in peace.

Yes and isn't it thoroughly

Yes and isn't it thoroughly amusing how many prefaces silence needs? I'll probably write another today.

Love it Jochen! Silence

Love it Jochen! Silence needs so many letters to spell. Isn't this whole forum daily prefaces to Silence?

"to be mute"

In the Bible is written that the first one to speak was God. He can't now complain for "our confusion".

Perhaps the transcriptor

Perhaps the transcriptor meant: God was the first One to laugh which seems to change nothing to our confusion!

the first one to speak

Most writing seems to be done by people who jump to conclusions. Here is another version of "the whole thing" where everything is left open enough for confusion to evaporate if we let it:
 
The essence of love marries itself and gives birth to love so great there is no name for it except for Mine. Call this stateless state of love God, God Overwhelming, God of Speechlessness saying Nothing, God saying Everything without a word. In the beginning, the word was God, and there was nothing else to say. There was no one to hear, and yet God was heard, and dimensions followed and yet were, nevertheless, dimensionless. Nothing was changed, only perception was born, and one thing led to another, led to you, led to Me.

http://www.heavenletters.org/communion.html

Jochen's word is for the refrigerator door...

Every time you open the refrigerator door the light goes on. Each time you read those beautiful words the light goes on. Of your words it can be said honestly: "In the beginning was the Word" and new dimensions followed. Thank you so much!

George

the Word

Yes!
I was pretty sure it wasn't a speech...though...you know...this deep sleep which followed...

Oneness

I know many people in different stages of spiritual awareness, and one thing I just love about Heavenletters is that there is so often a paragraph that has so much light and powerful truth in it that I can copy just that bit and send to a friend that I know it will really have an impact on. They might not be ready to read the entire letter, or a daily letter, but that glimmer has such power that it leads them to desire more and more. It is part of the oneness to be tuned in to the people we know, and have a sense of how to help them even when WE don't have the answers. Thank you for sharing all that glorious light and so many truths to give as gifts to others!

1 Heavenletter haiku for

1 Heavenletter haiku for you

Hello Friends,

God said hands in hands
I Am Myself as You Are
And We go steady

Love, Light and Aloha!

Karen Burns Thiessen!

It's so cute, we hold hands with the same Lover!

George