God or Ego

Heavenletter #3395 Published on: March 12, 2010
God said:

What is going on in your mind right now? Whatever it may be, whatever you may be thinking about, right now start thinking of Me and My heart that is filled with love for you. You are My beloved. Just as you are, your hair ruffled, without your make-up. Of what import to Me is your appearance when I know the radius of your heart so well? What matters to Me but you, the One of Us, the Oneness of Myself?

My thoughts are not on Myself. I Who lead you have My thoughts on you. It is you I embrace. It is you I fulfill. It is your inner heart that I desire to see lighted up. I look therein, and I can see Myself in you. That is the Christmas card you send. In your inner heart are the Christmas candles. In your inner heart is My signature. How I love to see Myself jolly in your heart, smiling in your heart, poking you with My elbow, winking at you, and so I (We) laugh at Our joke. We laugh together. The joke is, of course, that sometimes you think I am your imagination and that the far-off legions of yourself are true. A sense of humor is needed when you are God.

Beloved son or daughter of My heart, you light Me up. My heart quickens when I hear you address Me, tell Me your stories, and speak of your love for Me, for I know and know well, that your love for Me is your love for yourself.

Now We are getting down to it. Now We are exposing how far you have drifted from love for yourself. Ego is not yourself. If you have been trying to appease ego, you have been barking up the wrong tree. Ego-gratification is no gratification at all. Ego is a neon light that blinks on and off and points you in a direction you don't want to go. Do you believe Me yet? Do you believe Me when I tell you to disregard that blighted ego who would send you down the garden path onto a precipice where he would kick you off and cackle with laughter. Finally ego shows you his true colors.

Or you can believe Me now. Just don't go anywhere with ego, for ego is not your pal.

No matter how high you go with ego, ego will kick you off a ledge. Ego has no place in your life.

Perhaps you don't even know what ego is. Perhaps you think you don't have any. Ego is the voice that lures you to fame for fame's sake. It is the voice that calls you to make money more important than love. It is the voice that whispers in your ear and offers you panaceas for that which is Truth, that which is hungering for love. Ego will talk loudly so you cannot hear My voice, for ego gives you a fancy hat. Ego is a drug that doesn't keep. Ego is a prescription that you keep having to refill and gives you no release from its grip.

Ego does a fandango, seduces you, and quickly leaves you in the lurch, yet ego has its way with you until finally you stop listening to ego, and you hear My voice calling to you, calling you into service, calling you to pick up the phone and hear My voice. How silent is My voice, and yet how strong. Oh, beloveds, catch the vibration of My voice. You want My goods, beloveds, and you will discover that you have had them all along.

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Now We are getting down to it.

On March 12th, 2010 Jochen (not verified) says:

Down to what? Down to turning the other cheek.

How far will I go with indignation, irritation, anger, exasperation, resentment, judgment, hate, condemnation and whatever disguise the old grudge may appear in? As far as I feel entitled to; as far, to translate a German expression, as I believe it's "my good right" to feel that way when they (people, life, God) treat me so badly. And as long as I can stand the pain of it. Actually, quite a bit longer.

Life, thank you for making it truly and utterly unbearable. Otherwise, how could God get through to me? I know there are other temperaments and mind-sets that don't need this path of pain. Some do, up to a point. And the point is: Turn away from anything that feels less than good, however "good" your right to feel your negative feelings may be, however justified your criticism may be.

But...

No, hear now: Turn away from it. Don't go there. Turn away, turn away, turn away, a thousand times if necessary. Don't tell yourself things will go awry or break down when you don't tend to them. It's a lie, one of many that try to use "responsibility" as their gateway. The weeds will stop growing, the robber will stay away when you turn the other cheek and refuse to follow negative thoughts.

Truly, ego has led me up the garden path every single time I let it convince me that my indignation was righteous, my annoyance legitimate, my disappointment so very understandable. And I always took the bait, not hearing the cackling through my sobs. The choice is a simple one: be right or be happy, know or be innocent, pant or breathe.

When I was a naive child, I

On March 12th, 2010 Johanne says:

When I was a naive child, I knew You and felt You like You say

My thoughts are not on Myself. I Who lead you have My thoughts on you. It is you I embrace.

With the responsibilities of life and the stew of problems that come, this pure feeling in my heart gradually faded.... NOW I have learned that it is I who looked away and put too much attention on the world! After what like seems forever (!!!understatment!!!) of seeking the answer to the puzzle of life, unbeknownst to the real ME, ego had led me through hell and left me there.
By Your Gracious Hand do I survive now. Healing has been "operating" and my progress is steady but slow. Or maybe it just feels that way to me. I embrace Your Truth and Your Love with ALL my Heart. I'm on the lookout for You and my awareness of You. I KNOW it's within me and pray You will make a way for me to feel Your LIFE within me again.

I do not doubt what is being said here:

You want My goods, beloveds, and you will discover that you have had them all along.

There is so much on my heart and yet I cannot at this time successfully express all my thoughts.
THANK-YOU GOD for Your LOVE,

Johanne

either...or...

On March 12th, 2010 Emilia says:

You are so right Johanne, it is we who "put too much attention on the world" and on ourselves.
We choose to follow either ego or God. There is not a third way, there is Love and all the rest on the other side.
"Whatever you may be thinking about, right now start thinking of Me".
This is the choice we have, to replace everything else with one thought of God.
"What matters to Me but you, the One of Us, the Oneness of Myself?"
Why we cannot do the same? Why I cannot say that nothing matters to me but You?

I understand you very well, Jochen. Until we will be choosing ego and its games, until we will be following its loud voice, Life will lead us to illusions, disillusions and bitter conclusions. In fact Life is our teacher.
Like in "Sisifo" myth, we push an heavy stone up on a mountain and when it seems we have almost reached the top, we fall back at the foot of the mountain again, endlessly. Ego tells us we have to tend to that stone and to our goal, but nothing good may come from this lie, only exhaustion ( which is indeed good! ).
"Until finally you stop listening to ego, and you hear My voice calling to you, calling you into service, calling you to pick up the phone and hear My voice. How silent is My voice, and yet how strong. Oh, beloveds, catch the vibration of My voice."

I just found a lovely

On March 12th, 2010 Jochen (not verified) says:

I just found a lovely sentence I would like to share with you, Emilia:
 

Without the physical, you would have no horizon to peek over.

 
Are you perhaps a little too strict on yourself, dear one? Do you equate "the world" and "life" with ego, something to get rid of? With ego dethroned, will not life and the world be beautiful and enjoyable? I mean, where else do you get a chance to "see a heaven in a wild flower"? From what I read in Heavenletters, I'm sure we are meant to reveal and make visible that this world is Heaven. And Sisyphos, perhaps he is happy as Camus suggests. What do we know? Are we really "to replace everything else with one thought of God"? I really don't know. I may be simply attached to the world, but for me it feels more like not letting things matter so much and detecting God in every single one of them.

Here is the quote again, with a little context this time:


Nothing wrong with the mundane. It serves its great purpose. From it you peek over the horizon. Without the physical, you would have no horizon to peek over.

http://www.heavenletters.org/beyond-the-physical-dimension.html

What a kind thought,

On March 12th, 2010 Emilia says:

What a kind thought, dearest. The fact is that I agree with you on everything.
"Strict", yes I feel so.
This "world" and this "life" I equate with ego and to make "this" world reveal heaven we have to get rid of ego and "this" life will become Life.
The mundane is just a platform from where to go "beyond the physical", it is a fence to jump over, it is a limit to overcome.
"Sisyphos" is better and happier than "Sisifo".

It's so good to know we are

On March 12th, 2010 Jochen (not verified) says:

It's so good to know we are not arguing even if it sometimes looks as if we disagree, cara Emilia. I am coming from that very same place, so when I insist, don't take it as insisting. I saw fence, and I had fence. I saw limit, and limit was what I had. And now God keeps whispering so softly: "Don't see fence, don't see limit, it's you." That platform could be ego's contraption. You bend your knees, and then with all your might you stretch them, but instead of jumping, your feet break through. Ever heard that cackling laughter? Well, who (except you) wouldn't laugh?

What am I trying to say? The whole grim transcendence project (designed, by the way, to be a very spiritual endeavor, with or without the trappings) only serves to obscure the fact that nothing more than a little giving in is required. Not even required, really. If you can go with that macchia-laden breeze, leaving your thoughts to themselves for a moment – ah, that's wenn your platform holds.

We see limits and we have

On March 12th, 2010 Emilia says:

We see limits and we have them, of course, it is not the reverse. In Reality there are no fences and no platforms to break through! And no one laughing, except Me.
This WGTP (whole grim trascendence project) has always scared me.
What do we do now?

GOD OR EGO

On March 12th, 2010 mary moon (not verified) says:

DEAREST GOD OF MAJESTY AND GRACE, WE DO WANT TO REMEMBER IT IS
YOUR LOVE THAT DELIGHTS US - BECAUSE IT IS FOREVER AND SO VERY TRUE!

WE WANT SO VERY MUCH TO REMEMBER YOU ARE A GOD-CREATOR OF SWEETEST
PUREST MAJESTY , OF GRANDNESS! OUR TRUE HEARTS WANT TO REMEMBER
YOUR DIVINE AND EVERLASTING LOVE. WE WANT TO REMEMBER, WE DO, WE
DO!!! WE ARE SO TIRED, SO FATIGUED AT FORGETTING, NO MORE FORGETTING,
PLEASE!! YOUR HEART MUST BE OUR HOME, THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW.

you are always in my mind

On March 12th, 2010 carmen (not verified) says:

dear heavenley father,
in ego what i understand is a part of our mind,
somtimes it realey defecoult to consentrate
in our life evryday because en ego can com in
our mind, i am always put you in my hearth
and mind, why i love you God, i planted you in my hearth
like you planted me her in the earth
you are always in my hearth and my mind dear God
love and peace

it my love storey to you,

On March 13th, 2010 carmen (not verified) says:

dear God heavenley father,
i tel you my storey about me and you,
when i was a chaild am closer to you or your engel,
when i was younger i lose you, my life becom darknes,
and many years, am remeber the time 1986 april 12,
your son jesus he wake me up, and he seid wake up
you are not dream, i give you a masseges to bring the people
who belive me and life it save, because the earth is to short,
i bring that masseges no one belive me,
i was so inocent the time evrything about you,
and am remeber my dream you bring me in the heaven
and am remember you was toulking to me in the sunlight,
you seid to me, you are my dother and am your father,
and my answer, oh my God i have my own father ,i am not realize
what al you maen, and you give me a smil after i say that words,
and i think to my self you so sweet God father for me,
and why i love you so much because am reading your book the old testament,
time to time untel i planted you in my hearth,
is that my love story to you,
and i love you and i love jesus your son,
i do care of Mary Mother as a mother of earth

Picturing EGO as a separate entity is an amazing revelation

On March 13th, 2010 Barbara Castleman (not verified) says:

"Ego is a neon light that blinks on and off and points you in a direction you don't want to go." So profoundly perfect! (I like the idea of putting ego on a train going nowhere! on tracks that will not support the train's return. Bye bye ego you old smelly trout!)

Beloved Barbara, you outdid

On March 13th, 2010 Gloria Wen... says:

Beloved Barbara, you outdid God for names of ego! You put ego in its place!

1 Heavenletter Haiku for

On March 15th, 2010 Alohalight... says:

1 Heavenletter Haiku for you

Hello Friends,

God said hear the Truth
Hear My voice calling to you
That which is My love

Love, Light and Aloha!

 

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