A Forest of Enchantment

God said:

You live in a Forest of Enchantment. Sometimes the brush is thick and there are brambles. And sometimes there are sun-filled glades. Your attention can get caught on the brambles. You can get so caught that the brambles are all you see. You are so busy attending to the brambles, that you forget about the sun-filled glades. And what do brambles and Forest of Enchantment remind you of, dear ones? Darkness and light. Density and freedom.

In life, it has often been as if you walk with a magnifying glass. You notice every detail, and the details consume your attention.

You begin to think that you are only in this brambly spot. You are enrapt in it. In a way, you become fond of your struggle. You may like to grumble about the brambles, the bugs and the itchiness. You wish you could get out of there, but you see brambles, brambles, brambles. You see one wrong thing after another. There comes a point where you simply can't see anything but the brambles. You don't see the sunny glades, for the brambles scratch at you for your attention. You don't see the glades for the brambles.

There may even come a time when you forget glades exist. You may think glades are nothing but an oasis, a beautiful spot that doesn't really exist. You may become a realist. What you cannot touch, see, or hear is fantasy, and what you can see, touch or hear is the only reality for you. You cage yourself, beloveds.

You put yourself into a sort of cage, and you stay there. The door may be open, and still you stay there. This shows how the borders that encage you are the borders of your mind. You see the past, no matter how misinterpreted, as permanent. You sentence yourself to the past, and you perpetuate it. You even make a god of the limits you stay within.

All the limits you impose upon yourself are arbitrary.

No matter how entrenched you may have been, you are removing the bars now. You flex the muscles of your heart, and you bend the bars. The bars that seemed so impenetrable become pliant cloth. You push the cloth aside. You venture out. Wow, what a plantation there is before you! As far as your eye can see, there is sunny glade. Animals frolic there. The birds sing there. You will learn to sing, and, no matter how bright the sun, you will not need sunglasses.

All the while you have been in the Forest of Enchantment, you thought you were in a Forest of Brambles. It is like you hypnotized yourself. Surely you know you have been under a spell. Naturally you know you don't have to stay where you have been. No matter if you have always been there, you don't have to stay. You are free to leave.

It is dark in the Brambles. You belong in the Light. You were born for the Light.

The thorns grow bigger and sharper the more you look at them.

The same is true for the Light. The more you focus on the Light, the more it grows. The Light doesn't really grow, but it becomes more apparent to you. Beloveds, all you have to do is take a minute and look elsewhere from where you have been looking.

You cannot give lip service to the stars and get away with it, not for long. To enjoy the stars, you have to look up at them. You have to discover them, and discover them often. If you want to swing on the stars, you have to know where they are. Look up, and you will see them, and they will see you. You will notice that you no longer are in the Brambles. You have stopped convincing yourself that it was the Brambles for you.

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Guidance and Leadership

Ah yes. I know alot about bramble and yet without Your Guidance and Leadership I would still be blind and caged.
Blessed THANKS to Our Father within. Johanne

Brambles are dark, but Light is Bright

Pushing toward 84 years young, remembering Iwo Jima and other landings it seemed that the brambles obscured the sky but eventually we docked and looking down from the deck I could see my darling waiting, waving up at me, along with her dear mother and father. Just that quick, the horror of slaughter, the terror of a typhoon that broke our leading cruiser in half in the convoy, slipped into its comfortable spot in the choice place of memories that still teach me to look up at the light, or the dear stars Aloahlight111 talks about along with this dear writer.
I discovered that you can't fake waking up or going to sleep. You can't fake the bramble time; you just have to look up more often. In time All is LIGHT. In time we see Heavenletters as the open door that has no tiger behind it, only LIGHT!
When a stroke took out my whole right side and I had to learn to talk again, walk again, listen to my precious doctor say: "You have to crawl on your knees for a while to repattern you body. The brambles thought they had me but I looked up at the face of my darling wife and learned all over again that the sun makes the darkness so tiny. It's true, just as this dear write expressed it so vividly: "Wow, what a plantation there is before you! As far as your eye can see, there is sunny glade." Yes the birds sing, I learned, with joy, to type again, and dress my self, and love my
kids and grand kids and great grand kids. It's beautiful to know that my darling wife is pure energy and LIGHT now resting in JOY.
You see, my Father owns this whole Plantation and every mansion in sight. He never stops giving, and I have had the joy of learning that HIS giving is always an increased sense of KNOWING AND BEING.

George, loving his cane

1 Heavenletter Haiku for

1 Heavenletter Haiku for you

Hello Friends,

God said venture out
For you belong in the light
Not in the brambles

Love, Light and Aloha!

For you belong in the light

You say things like this so very well! Thanks
George

the borders of your mind

No matter how entrenched you may have been, you are removing the bars now.

You really mean NO MATTER, dear God? Since I don't see any convincing evidence yet, I can only try, every day, to take Your word. For if it depended on my own efforts..... Yes, I know I have been reminded that it doesn't. The point is, I still believe it. It's part of the entrenchment, borders of the mind. Sunny glades can be lovely. Yes I know quite well I have been under a spell. No, I don't know I'm free to leave. I take many a minute to look elsewhere, but the brambles grow back as often. No matter?

that eloquent and persuasive

that eloquent and persuasive statements!
but they don't transform lead into gold, nor Enchantment in Awakening, neither brambles in oasis, nor prayers and glorifications in a "personal salvation", nor the hens in swans, nor the wooden puppets in children of light, or the many crickets speakers in angels...

Ciao Danilo, dear friend

Ciao Danilo, dear friend living in the paradise of the Golfo di Napoli. I was beginning to miss you even though I knew you needed some time off. You do sound a little softer, so i'll just assume that it has been a good time for you. Now, when we look just a little closer, Danilo, I think it will become quite clear that nothing hast to change, or be transmuted, into anything else. There is no "lead", there are no brambles. That we see lead and brambles doesn't mean they are really there, however real they may seem. Heavenletters are not about change. They are about love and nothing else. I have often thought that I finally understood this - only to find I still didn't. But there is no denying it. Love is the only answer, and we "learn" to love by gently leaning towards it, not by change of any kind.

Ciao Jochen, dear friend

Ciao Jochen, dear friend living here.

"Love is the only answer" : you know perfectly well that this is just a simple slogan "of a belly full"and that is not responding to anything.
Human beings simply trying to secure their daily dose of emotions, excitement, satisfaction, pleasure, need to depend on something or someone... no matter what: art, football, television, church, politic, food, sex, gossip, war, heavenletters... to please the image of themselves, an image that they want to be eternal and an image of themselves referred to rejoice and enjoy forever. But if everyone and everything is a one thing only, how, where and when it can survive a picture of themselves? Human beings simply use, not love but, the "idea of love" to escape solitude and fear and still cling to hope, after that had already lost them all.

"Heavenletters are not about change. They are about love and nothing else." : you have forgotten most of Heavenletters, perhaps! ;-)
Very politically correct! Ahah!

Hugs.

But if human beings simply

But if human beings simply use the idea of love for whatever ulterior reason, then, first, where did they get that idea from, and second, what on earth keeps you, Danilo, from going for the real thing? And if you think there is no real thing, then what are you talking about and why? And if you are so absolutely sure that you are the only one who truly knows, don't be surprised that the rest of us don't understand. How could we? You know I'm not arguing. You know I know you are wonderful in your uncompromising search for truth. You too will know, dear and loving one.

Yes, I'm living here. The place is called Gaia.
A very warm spintone,
Jochen

Ahah! thank for the

Ahah! thank for the "spintone", but I cannot fall because I would not have climbed on mirrors, nor I walk, dreaming to open eyes and arguing in favor of my dreams, and dreams, even if shared by all, not become truth but only a collective dream.
But I am not wonderful in my uncompromising search for truth, because always human truth is contingent on what guarantees emotions, pleasure, relief, satisfaction, gain, reward.
I am not interested in the truth because the truth may be only a concept inflated by emotion.
I know only that I don't know.
"I" am not living here because "I" is just a common saying but the mind takes for reality as any notion that there is repeated long enough.

Finally, I know full well that "the rest of us doesn't understand":

"You may have heard that you are My unbounded Self. You may have repeated it. Until the realization arises from the well of your own heart, it is hearsay, and you can only give lip service to it. This is the meaning of Know the Truth, for the Truth shall set you free. Ticker-tape truth may be true, yet it is not your Truth. It did not issue from you. You heard it with your ears, or you read it with your eyes, and you repeated it with your lips."

"Day or night, you are sleepyheads."

A very warm hug.

Danilo

You will have a hard time

You will have a hard time trying to talk me out of your wonderfulness, Danilo. And you chose two very beautiful quotations, sleepyhead who refuses to dream. I agree that "a concept inflated by emotion" is distorted and misleading and probably dangerous. Emotions strangulated or rationalized out of recognizability by concepts are more dangerous. I imagine not knowing as a wonderful state. I imagine George to be there. Sadly, I am not (yet). Let me extend your two quotations a little:

You are My unbounded Self. This is a secret you have kept from yourself.
You may have heard that you are My unbounded Self. You may have repeated it. Until the realization arises from the well of your own heart, it is hearsay, and you can only give lip service to it. This is the meaning of Know the Truth, for the Truth shall set you free. Ticker-tape truth may be true, yet it is not your Truth. It did not issue from you. You heard it with your ears, or you read it with your eyes, and you repeated it with your lips. Second-hand truth is second-hand truth. You can have first-hand truth. You are meant to have first-hand Truth. I mean for you to have first-hand truth.

http://www.heavenletters.org/knowing-god.html

Day or night, you are sleepyheads. Now it is time for you to awake. I am at hand. Would you miss this spectacle of Me? Would you miss My quiet love? Would you miss a deep breath that signals the new dawn of light? Would you really like to continue as you are and stave off life by running around in it, too busy to perceive, accept, and love it? Wouldn't you rather come to Me in full recognition of yourself, your blessed holy Self, presently entangled in the grip of relative life and your role in it.
Your destiny is to come to Me. Come to Me now. You come to Me in your awareness. It has been called surrender. Is it surrender to choose to fulfill your deepest desire? There is nothing for you to surrender.

http://www.heavenletters.org/what-do-you-surrender.html

I imagine George to be there.

Jochen:

You think George is there. He is. I met him on the way going out. He was looking to find your beautiful unbounded SELF. You have such a great way of saying stuff.

George not looking any more. He found you.

Voilà!

Voilà!

Jochen and Danilo:

Precious friends of mine through Heavenletter:
I love the way you pitch and bat. I've lost track of the innings but I hear the beautiful music of the seventh inning stretch.
I'm sitting in a house that just yesterday burst a pipe and we had to shut off the water. No shower, no toilets, nothing but a few cases of bottled water. I just heated some chicken for lunch. Will have a salad for dinner tonight. At my age pushing along towards 84 I look now and then to see if the plumber can find the line coming in to the house. My brambles are chin high but my emotions are filled with fun, frolic, joy, music and the sure knowledge that up above the brambles the SON/sun is shining as always.
I take inventory and discover that I have LIFE! Just think, of the trillions of atoms be arranged into form, some of them chose me. To top that off I discover that this form has consciousness. To the I AM there has be added a me to the mix. This me looks to the I AM and asks who the hell is I AM. My mind has been trained by custom, social convention, Heavenletters to say to my consciousness: "If you see me, you see the FATHER."
Is this deep? No, of course not, it's what I choose to think at the time. Does it work? No, of course not unless my mind makes certain kinds of choices. I choose to live, have fun, limp with joy and play chess. You guys delight me.
George limping for attention

Hello, dear George... and

Hello, dear George... and the Father! ;-)
Your beautiful sympathy delight me.

Hugs.

danilo

Hugs received and loved

Danilo:

You comments fill my mush jar to overflowing. You continue to delight me with your gentle thoughts.

George groaning for pity while laughing my pants off. The Father sends HIS Love. (Dream on, you might as well sweet one.)

George, yesterday you told

George, yesterday you told me I had busted the whole edifice. I'm glad to hear it was only a pipe. A deep one? Let us hear more about your mind's choices. I love them. Our attention, certainly mine, will be riveted to you.

Jochen's wonderful comment

Jochen, dear one:

Your words open my heart and out jumps a butterfly, or a caterpillar getting ready to be us. Living each moment seems like we are making choices but in reality we're simply living what we learned how to do and be. The men who flew into the Towers were just doing what they learned how to do
Ghandi sat and spun cotton and led non violence. He was doing what he learned how to do real well. Does God figure into this? We sure do, we learn how to make choices, blink away the tears, put on pretty music and do what we've learned how to do. I'm sure the Eskimos thought that the first igloo was the dumbest contraption ever thought of. Then the wind blew and they learned how to do what they needed to do. Isn't life a kick?
I love your words to me.

George thinking and blinking

 

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