Judith to God:
Dear God, You told me not to duel with you on the level of the intellect. I understand that what you are saying is that we experience You on the level of the Heart.
But You have also given me this discriminating mind that seeks satisfaction.
Both my Heart and Mind are Your creations, are they not? In our thoughts and actions, where do "You" end, and "we" begin?
If our thoughts and actions result in suffering, is it "Your" doing or "our" doing?
If You are the Totality of All that there is, how can there be anything — even thoughts and actions from the "mind", rather than the "heart" — that is NOT YOU?
Thank you.
God to Judith:
Dear Judith, Angel of My Heart, your heart wants Me. Your intellect does not. Your intellect wants satisfaction, as one who is in a duel, wants satisfaction. The intellect wants answers. The intellect wants victory.
The heart wants Me. Your heart wants Me.
The heart is innocent. The intellect is crafty, ever ready to pounce. The heart accepts. The intellect questions.
The intellect wants proof.
The heart wants more of itself.
The heart is simple. The intellect complicates.
The heart experiences. The intellect intellectualizes.
One is close. One is far.
One connects. One disconnects.
Let the heart lead, and the intellect thus serve the heart.
Let Me be the heart, and you the surrenderer to it.
Intellect wants to take over. It wants to be clever. Clever is not of God. I am not clever. Love is not clever.
Heart is the heart of the matter. Intellect is the periphery.
Truth is in the heart.
Judgment is in the intellect.
The heart knows.
Intellect guesses.
Intellect draws conclusions.
Intellect is not intelligent.
Heart is where you are.
Reason is what you have been taught.
Intellect distracts you from truth.
We can say that Heart is pure being.
Intellect is added on to pure being.
Judith, I will never satisfy your intellect.
There is only so much a human mind can understand.
The heart understands everything.
As soon as I might answer one question of your intellect, it will find another question, and another, and another…
Judith, I gave you your fingers, but you are not your fingers. Nor are you your intellect.
Everything comes from My energy, Judith. You come to My well, and you take water. What you do with the water that came from My well is your choice. You do have free will. And you also have Me from the well.
You are predestined to come fully into My heart. How, when, where are up to you.
Do not deify the intellect.
The intellect plays games.
The heart has fun.
Indeed, where do you and I begin and end?
I am where your happiness is.
Suffering is a conclusion you make.
We are one spectrum, Judith, you and I, but there is a range of the spectrum. The range is relative life.
The intellect begins its questions with But. It says, Yes, but.
The heart says Yes.
I gave you freedom.
You are connected to me with an inviolable gold chain. The chain is of great length. You can't go off the chain, and yet you have free rein. You cannot break the connection to Me, but you can wander far off, or think you do, or feel you do.
I will not ask you if I have answered your questions.
I will ask you if I have answered your heart.
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NOTE: See also The Experience of God, Part II