Since I seem to be the first to see your great post, I will be the first to respond, but hoping to hear Gloria's and everyone's responses later.

Your questions are some of the toughest there are, and they make me look forward to more of your posts. I have no answers of my own, but I think there are very clear answers in Heavenletters themselves. You will find them yourself over time, of course, but let me cite some of what I remember right now:

Words, in their close association with mind, are clumsy. For instance, time and space are perfectly obvious realities to the intellect, so when Heavenletters say that time and space do not exist, how can we explain that? We can't, at least not in words. And yet we can perhaps somehow sense that it is true. There are many "things" – like love, awareness, God – that can be perceived in this sense but not seen or described as objects. Concerning your questions, this means that Heavenletters are teaching us to read between the lines, to hear that which words can only hint at but not describe directly.

Another answer taken from Heavenletters, really the same answer, is that things will open up and start to make sense once we stop trying to figure them out.

I think your first sentence says it all: "First, I love the letters." Understanding or not, confused or not, something is heard, and we can't help loving it. That's the whole secret.

I noticed Gary's questions too, Jochen, but I refrained from adding confusion to confusion. I am not sure my mind intends to cooperate.

Stillness is the very Nature of God, it is Silent Awareness of only Love.
Love is not an emotion, but a state of being, the state of Being God. We know it is so, we just know it or remember it, we cannot prove or understand it.
God has no personality. We, as human beings, are aspects of God, we are His multiple personalities. All personalities belong to the dream, they are in Reality non existant.
God can be experienced in many ways, according to the perceiver. For you, Gary, the true Nature of God could be that "child-like joy".
We are One and call it God for the sake of speaking, as I call you Gary.
For vaster informations, keep reading Heavenletters and, above all, ask to see.

Gary, I too love your questions. Let me add my two cents worth, hoping it can be useful to you. I will approach your questions from a different angle, although I like very much how others have approached them, above.

Your first question really starts out as a statement. You say that our true nature is “this infinite void or no-thing.” I take this part to mean that our true nature is not physical and I agree wholeheartedly. Next you add the statement that our true nature is a stillness and presence (so far, I still agree), but you finish with: “without any inherent emotion or love.” Here I vehemently disagree, since I am sure our true nature is love, although we might still argue whether emotion is part of our true nature. I think emotion is, but I am sure love is. You end this part by saying that we often characterize this stillness as God and we are in agreement again. My only disagreement then is the implied statement that our true nature is not love.

I really like your description of your midnight encounter with God. This feels very accurate as an experience that is a genuine encounter that is pure and simple.

You finish up with what, to my way of thinking, is powerful question. You ask if we are all one infinite being, how can we call this being “God” as though it were separate and had a personality. I see this as a profound mystery. We are one with God and yet we experience our independent lives and our free will. To me the real mystery is not that we project God out there as a separate being, it is that we can see ourselves as separate from Him while the Truth is that we are One. To me this mystery is a great gift and a truly miraculous invention of God through which the entire universe and all conscious beings were created, yet are still only Him.

Your questions are great, Gary. I hope you will stay with us and help us to delve ever further into these mysteries while trying to apply them in our lives.

Chuck