Gloria:
Dear God, I know people who want to be enlightened more than anything else. It is their prime goal. "All I want is to be enlightened." Is it my judgment that that is selfish, or is it selfish?
God:
It's your judgment that selfish is wrong.
Looking to become enlightened is too small a thing.
Look to know Me.
I am grander than enlightenment.
Seek Me.
Gloria:
I may have asked all this before. I think you answered this already, but it's that some people seem to be struck with enlightenment like with a wand. Lightening flashes. Enlightenment comes in a moment, and everything is different, and, wow, they're enlightened.
God:
When you are enlightened, there does not have to be a Wow. Most often not.
You all have been enlightened for a long time, but have refused to recognize it. You have shied away from sovereignity, feared it. Feared sharing the limelight. Feared being emblazoned with God's light. Feared rising. Feared standing up to your true stature. Liked being in disguise. Liked suffering. Liked feeling unworthy, unused, undeveloped.
When you notice you are enlightened, the most you probably will say is an Oh, if that.
And yet, what you call enlightenment does appear in an instant. It can appear in any instant that you accept it. It takes only an instant.
What do you think being My child means?
What do you think ego is?
Ego is denial of your worth.
You are worth a lot to Me.
You are the wandering children who do not know that you are really princes and princesses and that your father is the King. Your Father, the King, chases you and chases you, but you have to turn to Him and recognize Him in order to recognize yourself. He does not need your recognition. He already knows Who He is. You need your recognition.
Human life is a process of finding out who you really are. You can be sure it is not what you thought.
Of course, what you have thought does not alter what you are. Only your perception is altered. But that is important because your perception won't let in more than it outlines. More than it predicts. So We want to loosen your perception, open it up, shake it a little. Or a lot.
Your perception is nothing but your perception.
It is not reality. It is your perception of reality.
Widen your lenses, and you will see reality. You will perceive truth.
Start by looking up. Enough of looking down. You don't have to see where your feet have been. You need to see where you are, where you are right now. Catch My eye. Look up, and let Me catch yours.
Gloria:
Dear God, I always thought it was a good thing when the soul was out of the body. Someone had told me once that mine was out for maybe two weeks at a time. Although it made me clumsy in regular life, I thought that it made me very spiritual and special, and I was glad to hear it.
Karen just told me loud and clear that the soul belongs inside the body, that the body is a gift from You, and the soul is supposed to stay in the body to deal with everything in life.
Does my soul handle things in life? Or is it my individual personality on earth? Did my soul run away because things were too much for it on earth? I don't think I understand soul.
God:
I always know that something is up when you get so serious. You think this is a big question, an important one, but it really is like asking a chef what about this ingredient in the recipe and what about that ingredient and what about the sequence of ingredients — all when it is irrelevant to the enjoyment of the cake. You won't be making the cake. The point is: the cake is good. Anything else is curiosity.
Yes, Karen is right; the soul belongs in the body so long as you are on earth.
The soul is a kind of radar for you in earthly life.
You have also called soul heart. Sometimes they are interchangeable for you. That is fine. You don't have to know the word soul in order for everything to be fine. You don't have to know a definition. You don't have to know the order of things.
It is good to have the intention to keep your soul contained.
Let Me take care of your soul.
Leave questions like this to the philosophers.
Your questions, as well as your soul, belong on the earth plane.
In truth, you don't care about this question. You just thought, "Hey, I thought of this and wouldn't it be a good question to ask and impress people." Your question here is in the category of ego, like when you thought it was grand for your soul to travel, like you had accomplished something spectacular. This question does not bring you closer to Me, dear Gloria. This is a question of the mind, not the heart. This is not even really your question.
The truth is that you are not really looking for answers. You are looking for connection to Me. Let that be the star that leads you.
You asked about the role of your individuality. There is what you call individuality but, in truth, there is no individual as you mean it. Individual actually means undividable. You are undividable. You cannot be separate from Me or from another. We come back to Oneness which is what We are.
Your real question to ask is: God, how do I become closer to You? And that is what Heavenletters tries to ascertain.