Begin Love Today

God said:

The person to forgive is yourself. No matter what you have done, it is done, and it is the past. Please forgive yourself your past. It is yourself that your heart is set against. It is yourself you are impatient with. It is yourself who has trespassed, and it is yourself that you must pardon.

The seeming streams of other people are pictures taken of you. This is hard to take, I know. The only enemy in the whole world is yourself. This is all illusion, of course, for you imagine enmity. You make it out of thin air. You oppose yourself. You fantasize disabling thoughts, and blame them on someone else.

The thing is that there is no someone else. You, as you know yourself, do not exist either. So what is this whole fuss about? You think it’s about what someone else said, or what someone else did, or what someone else should have said or done in justice to you. You can only be all fraught with yourself. All the affronts to you, you perpetrated upon yourself. You framed someone else. You targeted someone else. You made a false picture of yourself and put someone else’s name under it.

There is no such thing as someone else. Nor do you, as you see yourself, exist. Bodies seem to exist and receive lots of attention, yet bodies are not the heart of the matter. Your disavowal of Truth is the heart of the matter. What is the matter is not what someone else has said or done. You are in disfavor of yourself. It is a great con game you’re involved in. You have conned yourself into believing that you are aggrieved.

I, God, am not aggrieved. I never am. I do not stay awake all night belaboring anyone’s ignorance or lack of tribute to Me. I know better. You, on the other hand, are disjointed and look outside the Kingdom within you for comfort or discomfort. Grace yourself instead.

There are no bad guys. You have created them all in your fertile imagination. A spark of your thought was lit somewhere in the Universe. You saw it like a fallen star. You have decided yourself as the one who is to remedy the world. Remedy your misperceptions, beloveds.

The thought of being true to your own self takes on new meaning. Rid yourself of false thought.

Consider, what if you have been mistaken? Consider, what if you have been misled? What if you have misled yourself? I repeat. There are no bad guys. The bad guys are your thoughts, and it is not the first time that thoughts have manifested themselves. Let go of negative thinking by forgiving yourself for your imagination. Forgive yourself for having created less than beauty in the world. You have scribbled on the world and drawn graffiti. You have been busy. If the world were a great artist’s rendition, you have scribbled in a moustache. In so doing, you have falsified the art, and you have falsified yourself.

Begin your reformation by forgiving yourself. There is nothing else to do. Stop holding things against yourself or against any other. Free the world from your sense of reparation.

No one owes you anything. You owe everyone everything. You owe everyone forgiveness of yourself. Let yourself out of the prison you have made for yourself. You made the bars that block your perception. You condemned yourself and others to a life of trial. Condemn no one. Certainly, no longer condemn Truth to obscurity. Say goodbye to falsehood. Pardon yourself. Give yourself a lifelong pardon. Begin love today.

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fertile imagination

There is no time, and yet I need to forgive myself my own past. There are no others, and yet I need to stop holding things against any other. I'm having no difficulties with that, but the question how that fertile imagination started to imagine falsehood tends to elicit answers that don't answer anything. The only enemy in the whole world is myself, fine. But how, if there are no others to get me started on the path of enmity, did I get to be my enemy, to oppose myself? Where does disavowal of Truth begin and how is it possible to be in disfavor of myself? There does not seem to be a reason or even occasion, it must have happened spontaneously. A whim? Whose whim? And what a strange whim to imiganie opposition, strife and all the dreary rest out of less than thin air?

Anyway, the reason or history given is this: A spark of your thought was lit somewhere in the Universe. What am I to do with that? Really, I have no idea. I can only speculate that, having freedom of choice, everything at all imaginable had to be tried out.

Alas, there does not seem to be an explanation. I scribbled a moustache and do not even know why or how. And to reverse or ando the process, strangely, awareness seems to be necessary. After reading this Heavenletter a few times, I don't even know what Pardon yourself could mean. The only thing I feel confident I can do is stop it, no matter when or how or why it began.
 
[Two things I do not understand:
1. What is a "fallen star" (sixth paragraph)?
2. The pragraph following this paragraph is: The thought of being true to your own self be true takes on new meaning. Rid yourself of false thought. What does the second "be true" mean? Or is it to be removed? Or should the first "being true" be removed?]

Beautiful Jochen helps us know: "To thine own self be true, and-

The Bard said that we must be true to ourself in order to be true to others.

Jochen's precious reasoning mirrors so many Heaven Letter readers that love the thought but have not come to know the "THINKER" of the thought. Read all the Heaven Letters until the Precious Divine Thinker grabs hold of your undisciplined consciousness and makes it His love pillow. Just try it, you'll find the lost key.

George

In regard to your point 2,

In regard to your point 2, that was finally noticed and fixed. It had gotten past the best proofers in the world!

Fallen star. The best I could find was it is the same as a shooting star.

Of course, someone in life who is high in his field and then falls into disrepute is referred to as a fallen star.

Beloved Jochen, are you trying to be logical when it comes to a Heavenletter? As we see logical, God is not! I believe He wants to jolt us out of our usual mind-set. Somewhere I've heard the expression: The opposite is also true.

Just have fun, Senor Jochen. :)

fallen star

Of course, you may call it "trying to be logical", Señora. I simply found this a particularly puzzling passage. I would have had no difficulty understanding "falling star" but "fallen star" really looks strange to me in this context as if there was some profound meaning behind it that is escaping me. Having said this, yes, I like things to be logical but only in the way Heavenletters are logical, infinitely more logical than our heavily biased human logic that is so thoroughly bent to suit our needs.

I love you so much, Jochen.

I love you so much, Jochen. You're way ahead of me anyway.

I forgive the world for the errors I have made

As God sometimes treats ego as nothing or smoke, and at other times, as a tough guy, He does the same with forgiveness. Sometimes He will say that there is nothing to forgive, and today He says to forgive ourself.

What I understand in this apparent ambiguous statement about forgiveness is that forgiveness or pardon is not asked for what is true. It must be limited to what is false. Forgiveness can be relevant to illusions but is irrelevant to everything that is not illusion. We can say that what God created is true and to forgive or pardon that is meaningless. How can you forgive innocence?

What we have to forgive (in ourself or in the others) is what we believe is real but is not. We talk about the unreality of error, mistake, guiltness, sin. If error of any kind was real, it would be unpardonable. Guilt could not be forgiven. If you "sin", your guilt is everlasting.

It is only because of the unreality of offense or error that forgiveness becomes a natural healing process. It stands between illusion and Truth, between the world we see and that which lies beyond, between guiltness and innocence. Forgiveness is a natural, holy and wholly means to bring back illusion to Truth.

Forgiveness is the key to freedom. By freeing our brothers from all the thoughts we had of offense in them, we experience the escape from all the heavy chains we sought to lay upon them, but these chains were laid upon ourself by ourself.

Ego uses offense to justify its hatred even against those it pretends to love. Forgiveness or pardon frees both the offender and the offended from the illusion of offense.

Normand shows us where the Key is hidden.

Through deep and fruitful pain Normand has found the key that unlocks the prison that our life style holds us in. Read this a few times. It is freeing. Thanks Normand.

George

BEGIN LOVE TODAY

OUR DEAR MAESTRO, CREATOR OF THE SUBLIME UNIVERSE AND LOVER OF ALL THAT IS.

I do love this HeavenLetter, and although I have known how important it is to forgive oneself, this new idea that 'WE FANTASIZE
DISABLING THOUGHTS AND THEN BLAME THEM ON SOMEONE ELSE" gives us a bright new picture of everything, of the world
and the people in the world !! For today, YOU'RE showing us that everyone 'OUT THERE" is a picture of myself. And this is all because as YOU say, "THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU" not outside of myself.

It's just so ENRICHING AND ENABLING AND FREEING TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE JUST ARE NOT ANY '"BAD GUYS" OUT THERE!!! No enemies anywhere. There are prayers speaking of "mine enemies" but they just aren't there! Everyone
out there is just another picture taken of myself. Wow! I have "CONNED MYSELF INTO THINKING I AM AGGRIEVED"

So today, all throughout this day, I shall be considering this question very deeply, OH, MY WHAT IF I HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN ?!!
I am tickled by the thought 'YOU HAVE SCRIBBLED ON THE WORLD AND DRAWN GRAFFITI." All this does make us laugh
and laugh at our mistaken perceptions, our strange misperceptions which are prison bars that have locked myself in.

TODAY I SEE THAT FORGIVENESS IS TO BE GIVEN MYSELF !! THANK YOU FOR THIS DELIGHTFUL HEAVENLY LETTER!!

Guilt has a padlock on PARDON. The key is hidden!

We'd all like to pardon our self and get out of prison free.

The various prisons we have made out of the thoughts we have thought.

This requires new thought patterns. Read Heaven Letters over and over to give your mind the power to find the hidden key to unlock the prison. You'll see that it works faithfully just as eating the right food works on your physical body.

George

By giving love, one receives

By giving love, one receives and experiences a tremendous love from the universe.

reparation

Stop holding things against yourself or against any other. Free the world from your sense of reparation. this alone is like eisenerz, the mind can give much trouble with this because it seems as something static, dense, solid, but it is not, it is fluid, moving and very subtle. It is thin as a membrane, if only I could stop the currents of it but it does not require a supreme effort to Begin your reformation by forgiving yourself. so easy, I feel this essence is completely and alone written for me. thank you dear Gloria.

Begin Love Today

These are always good. Sometimes I don't have time to read it though. But today-oh my-
am I glad I got to it. This one is amazing. Not easy but amazing and I know it is true. You
really did a beautiful job of laying this out. Much appreciated.

Thank you, beloved Mary.

Thank you, beloved Mary. Just a note: God does all the laying out. I just type what I hear Him say. All glory to God, dear one.

What if there is only one of us?

If there is only one of us here, then as this letter describes, any hard feelings I hold are against myself. No matter who I think I am angry at, and no matter what the offense, it can only be my self that I am targeting. If, in my confusion, I hold enmity against part of my self, how can I ever be happy and content and satisfied? I do want to be happy content and satisfied, so I need to see through this self-imposed illusion and forgive myself. Seeing that it is myself against whom I hold my hard feelings almost automatically begins to dissolve these feelings. Who really wants to see themselves in such a bad light? I certainly don’t. I want to see myself as a wonderful person full of goodwill and lovely aspirations. Put in this light, what this letter suggests for me is incredibly easy. I just have to feel the Oneness of creation deep in my being. Then it is all me. Whatever mistakes have been made, if they ever truly existed, mean nothing now. There is now no need to judge any part of myself or continue to hold any aspect of myself in a less than loving light.

I know that in the past I have always been doing the best with how I saw myself and how I saw the world. In my confused, muddled mind, my best from my past may not be what I would be doing now. My best is now better since it springs from a more accepting vantage point.

As I look out on the world now, there still remain fragments of myself that seem to be acting in ways this fragment would not choose. It is still the same solution, though. It may not be the disjointed me of my past, it may be the disjointed me’s of the present I need to forgive. The answer is my good hearted acceptance of all my mistakes and the forgiving this engenders. Once I truly see every actor as me, the forgiveness is quite natural, perhaps inevitable. Once I forgive, the fracture of my being begins to heal and peace and satisfaction begin to grow. Healing is contagious. It is based on the certainty of love.

Beautiful, Chuck. As I look

Beautiful, Chuck. As I look at it now, hard feelings seem like a silly thing.

Loving you, Gloria

Seeing that it is myself

Beautiful and brillant, Chuck.
 
We climb hill and dale even as there are no hills and dales. All the mountains are really one step. Not even a step, for there are no mountains, and there is only the One of you and Me, which is to say that We meet in the middle, as it were, and therefore are One. One magnificence. One wonder. One Love, seemingly bouncing here and there.

http://www.heavenletters.org/whither-thou-goest.html
 
When our mind begins to cautiously agree that oneness might just make sense, that means the narrow, perhaps very narrow passage between heart and mind has widened. Heart, I guess, knows nothing but oneness and thus not even the word "oneness" or the word "god" or the word "love". Knowing no separation, it has no concept of anything. If there was a sudden complete opening of mind's receiving channel for heart's knowing, mind might get blown off the stage for good, never to utter a word again. So, since words are nice in a life that is meant to be heaven on earth, slowly accustoming mind to the boundless may be a good idea, as good an idea as Slow Food and other recent slow movements.

You wrote: "Seeing that it is myself against whom I hold my hard feelings almost automatically begins to dissolve these feelings." I sincerely hope and desire for you and everyone that you won't meet with as much resistance and frustration as I did wrestling with harder feelings than a human being should have to contend with. So, not for you or Señora but for some of us or maybe even just myself I will say: This seeing may have to happen a lot of times, alternating with what feels like utter unseeingness, until you feel some more sturdy relief.

I hope your comment will be read by many. It's a truly helpful one.

The Emotion of the moment - Love

Thank You Dear Lord and Loving Gloria,

This Heaven Letter is core for our growth with respect to living life to the fullest. Forgiving oneself allows for healing to begin and in fact - the contemplation of forgiveness itself clears space in our Heart. For long, we hold on to old memories that create a false sense of anger within us - because truly it is not the memory that is causing us angst, it is that we allow the emotion attached to that memory to revive the same emotion at the precise moment we think about it. But so beautiful expressed by an earlier comment - all that we feel angst toward to is an illusion. By Living in the moment and allowing only the emotions of the moment the absorb our senses.we free our heart space for Love to envelope our being... because Love is what the eternal and instant moment is Made of. Forgiving ourself frees us to love endlessly without limit, without restriction, without expectation, without force and without fear.

love and light x

Beautiful! Are you

Beautiful!

Are you Melvyn?

I was just going to thank you for your note and invite you to post which, I see, you already did!

With love and blessings,

Gloria

the contemplation of forgiveness

-- For long, we hold on to old memories that create a false sense of anger within us - because truly it is not the memory that is causing us angst, it is that we allow the emotion attached to that memory to revive the same emotion at the precise moment we think about it.--

Until now it was never for me but this time the hard look and severity of these memories, the stony appearances cease. Now for the first time there is a quality in it that altogether dim these memories of indifference, glimpses of a new vision or new dream come through.

"Grace yourself"

"This is hard to take, I know. The only enemy in the whole world is yourself. This is all illusion, of course..."
Oneness is not the sum of all our individualities, the other one I see is not me, we both do not exist. This conclusion is very helpful for me. The splitted mind and dimmed heart of humanity have produced all kind of negative thoughts and emotions which have "solidified" into people and events. We have believed in those thoughts and in the solidity of those people, we have fooled ourselves, imprisoned our hearts in the iron bars of our interpretations and condemned "Truth to obsurity". To forgive for me is to restore the Truth by letting go of the illusion that there is a world outside of us. Besides, I cannot go around any longer with those ugly moustaches on my face :§(

Grace

I, for one, think your mustache is kind of cute.

Love ya,

Chuck

Another strand of pearls from God.

Pearls arise from the embrace of a tiny pebble. I embrace all of the pebbles in 'my' life and 'your' life too. This is not a firm embrace...it is the gentlist of gentle embraces...cause...you are so, so worthy of this softest of softest embrace. I do this now...for God...and for all of us. I cannot help but do this...cause...cause...cause...I love you so deeply...and cause I love you so sweetly. If the sweetness in you is not apparent, look again...look with love and look with sweetness...and sweetness is all you will feel and all you will see! Have a sweet day...and a sweet life...cause you have what you are.. Jim and Jimi.