Your Heart Is Your Bond

God said:

Every person on Earth has his own agenda. He has his own way of viewing the world. In effect, each person lives in his own world, and yet, still, each person is everyone. You are everyone and everyone is you. Everyone shares the same spot.

If you were to time travel, or someone were to time travel to you, you would still be two human beings, and you would recognize each other. Even if you did not speak the same language, you would communicate, one heart to another. Sometimes you communicate better without words.

You would know that the old-fashioned clothing and new clothing were incidental. Through whatever time travel, there would be the human being, and there would be the human heart. That is all that is needed for communication.

Through eons, the human heart has remained true. In man or woman, the human heart is as it always was. There is the individuality of each being, and yet there is also the universality of Oneness.

In the world there are people that you more easily get along with than others, yet there is nothing in any human heart that cannot link with any other human heart. The heart is your bond.

Two people can think quite differently, and each can think he is right and the other mistaken, and yet there are not two individuals who cannot also create harmony together. Remember to say yes.

If someone requests something of you, say yes. Say yes more quickly than you say no.

Be finished with resistance to giving true service to another. This does not at all mean that you save yourself for last. Right where you are and right in the composition of your own life, when it is possible, give a service to another. Have the frame of mind to give it, and give when you can.

Give people what they want and not necessarily what you think is better. You may prefer apples, and someone asks you for an orange. Give them an orange. Give someone what they want. Do not save your heart for a rainy day.

Do you have to give away your orange? No, of course not. You do not, by any means, have to give away any of your apples or oranges, and yet you have the possibility to give to the form of yourself who stands before you with his hand out.

What your purpose in life amounts to, beloveds, is giving someone what they ask. You may think apples are better than oranges, and yet, if someone eyes your orange and you can tell he wants it, give him the orange. Give the apples to those who want apples. When there is a need to fill, it does not have to be your need to fill. You may have the need to give apples, yet the one before you wants an orange. Do you deny him? Why would you?

As much as it is within your capacity, give people what they ask for. Do not improve their tastes. Serve them.

Serving, which is a form of love, is the greatest service you can give in the world. Think of it: to give people what they want and not what you think is better for them. And when you can, give them what they want right then and there and not make them ask you again later. Give all you can give so that your heart will burst open like a beautiful flower whose purpose it is to burst open and share itself with others and give joy.

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Your Heart is Your Bond

This one doesn't seem to have the magic that some of the other letters do.

It's about always giving others what they want. Perhaps it just SEEMS without any poetry.

I know this sounds like I don't get the gist of this message. Perhaps I don't.

I don't mean to sound thick-skulled, but there's no romance here. Just giving

them what they think they need doesn't seem to have any grace about it. It sounds

like obligation without much thought to it. I'm sorry to re-act this way.

Dear Mary, I'm sure there is

Dear Mary, I'm sure there is no need at all to feel sorry. You wanted an orange ("magic", "poetry", "romance", "grace") and feel you got an apple ("obligation"). It's a little disappointing. So what? Let me tell you I like your comment very much and I'm not kidding. I wish for all of us to come to this simple opneness and honesty more and more. I love it. I bow to it.

I can relate to this Heavenletter a little more because getting an apple when I wanted an orange has been one of the deeper experiences in my life. I'm speaking about people who always know better than you what is good for you (and not just in terms of fruit). They either shout "Basta!" right away or first pretend to discuss matters with you, but it always ends with that very same "Basta!"

But is this Heavenletter about these matters at all? There are a few things I'm finding a little disquieting, like: ....each person lives in his own world, and yet, still, each person is everyone. You are everyone and everyone is you. Everyone shares the same spot. What does that have to do with apples and oranges? With serving? In the world there are people that you more easily get along with than others, yet there is nothing in any human heart that cannot link with any other human heart. Could it be that "linking" is the deeper theme of this Heavenletter? Linking with whom, serving whom, giving to whom? Isn't this a strange way of putting it ....you have the possibility to give to the form of yourself who stands before you with his hand out.

And this, I feel, is a promise: your heart will burst open like a beautiful flower.

Am I trying to magically turn an apple into an orange for you?

Jochen, I will take all the

Jochen, I will take all the apples and oranges you give any day. You have opened the flower of this Heavenletter and given it to me.

Mary, I most love the poetic Heavenletters too!

God asks us to take what we can from a Heavenletter. He does not obligate us. There is nothing that says that every Heavenletter has to be the ultimate one for us. I bet, however, that there is someone who will feel deeply about this Heavenletter.

It's possible too that this could be a Heavenletter I most need to hear. God could have been talking just to me. I do have the tendency of thinking I know just what is best for someone else.

From Bernie Siegel, M.D.

I never post for other people, but in view of discussion above, I just have to include Bernie's response to this Heavenletter.

yes ancient message

help the person in front of you by doing what they need, now.

Posting or not, Dr. Siegel.

One thing sure Dr. Siegel; you pointed to the ancient message! Thanks

George wanting a person in front of me to want something

Jochen knows what I don't know

First of all how did you know Mary wrote that comment? My computer didn't tell me her name.

Second, how on earth can you see so deeply into what most of us see as a fuzzy maze? An apple when I wanted an orange was no big deal but when people tried to invade my mind I just turned away. So what if they felt diffent from me, I just didn't care. Is that good, or bad? Neither, it's part of our mask.

When Gloria goes on about being individual but being one I'm tempted to get out my Course in Miracles to see what Helen had to say about that sort of thing but it all boils down to existing in the sacred moment of NOW one darn instant at a time. What on earth does it mean? Or is it all a matter of what our dream means? Jochen's answer made me shiver; "And this, I feel, is a promise: your heart will burst open like a beautiful flower." I sit here wishing I had said that. Thanks Jochen and Mary andl Gloria

George sipping tea hoping to read the leaves

George, most precious

George, most precious friend, the answer to the first one is further down. (No no, that's not deep stuff; I'm simply giving you a location.)

It's a good thing to be old enough to turn away in times of invasion. And as it turns out (much later), not being able to do anything about invasion is a good thing too.

George, I don't know much about what you aptly call "that sort of thing". It can be felt, that's all I know.

What did the leaves say?

"What did the leaves say?"

Jochen, here's what the leaves said:

"You will meet a fantastic person on Heaven Letters who can see a lot better than you."

After a second look it said "Keep blinking and the yellow will mellow and you'll see more."

After the third look the leave said: "Dummy, you used a tea bag and you really can't read them things."

Jochen, I love to use the phrase "that sort of thing." It is designed by me to make people feel I know a secret and if they really look deep they will surely find it. Many are still looking. I'm still looking.

George with a fantastic friend

This is so profound!

Two major points: give people what they ask for, and serving is a form of love...."the greatest service." Yes! When our grown children come to us and pour out all their woes, often they are not asking for our advice. They are asking us to listen. They need to tell someone, just as they needed to tell us about "what happened at school" when they were children. They are asking for our love and as their parents always, regardless of age or stage of development, this is the greatest service we can give them. Sometimes we find ourselves biting our tongues because we certainly do want to offer advice... That's our apple when they want an orange.

Thank you, dear Gloria.

Perhaps apples and oranges

Perhaps apples and oranges are just insignificant details when held in the light of love. When the giving or serving is moved by love (how), whether it be apples or oranges, hugs or advice (what) matters not.

What matter?

Precious heaven Admin:

Do you have any idea how much you matter? WOW! Let me count the ways!

George counting

Love, and you can do hat you want

Everyone is me and I am in everyone. The illusion is the moltitude, Oneness is the reality. Well, we know but it isn't so easy to live it. Love is the difference. Ego is the difference. I think (I also wanted apples and the world gave to me a lot, a lot of oranges!) all lessons in our own life have the purpose to make us more and more malleable, and surely others reasons that I don't know. Like a Zen saying "When a sculptor wants make a tiger, he takes away from the marble all that isn't tiger" So is with us. I think this is necessary cause to reach the reality of love is difficult for us and that is the unique reality when there aren't questions and there arent' answers.( I hope reach that very soon!)
S.Paolo wrote: "Love, and then you can do what you want"
However, I can tell you that a lerned, whit my apples and my oranges, to make a delicious fruit-salad! To me is a great goal!

Patrizia, I love the recipe

Patrizia, I love the recipe you give!

I learn from you every time.

Every one knows how but me.

I loved what that writer had to say and read it with delight but I couldn't find her name anywhere.
Is this a nifty trick by heaven admin or are you psychic. How did you find Patrizia's name?
Maybe you can have Jochen give me the secret.

George the mystery's killing me

George, since I'm

George, since I'm short-sighted, I actually know the secret. Patrizia's name is in rather small yellowish print at the top of her comment where names always are; if a name ist not in blue that means that the person was not logged in when posting. Perhaps Heaven Admin can make the names slightly more visible by darkening them a little so they get more contrast.

I just can't believe it!

I thought that the yellow stuff that my poor eyes can't begin to see was a divine trick of some sort. I thought that the blue names were only listed when the writer wanted them listed. Jochen this revelation is a great comfort. Now I can sort of know what I can't possibly know that I'm supposed to know. I have a deep affection for Heaven Admin and I wouldn't for the world want to "darken" any of their work. They even write me a note now and then and that makes my whole day. A comment from you to me ZINGS me in a way I can't describe. When I read your comments to others I always want to commend you but don't always know what to say because you have such a special way of putting it. Thanks Jochen

George squinting a lot more but it don't help.

Hi George... i know what you

Hi George... i know what you mean, I squint to and the words have fuzzy edges and i ought to wear my glasses... and think i need another eyetest... Heavenletters is very special.... place to meet dear friends sweet and lovely as you... wishing i could give everyone including Jochen a hug... Luv Karen

AH,HA! Hello dear George, my

AH,HA!
Hello dear George, my friend. I read your question only now. Patrizia Massi is me!
Well, now it is not important. I would only give you my "have a good day!" every occasion is a good occasion to say hello to you.

But what of the broken heart?

Gloria gives us wisdom's look at the mystery of what we all want to know; how's that done? You ask with shaking in your voice.

It's just a question of what form love is going to take. I was watching a very tall young father standing by his very tiny son who was asking for a piece of candy or popsicle of something. The father said "No", the little by said: "please", the father repeated the same: "No!" and this went on for quite some time until the little boy hauled off and kicked his father in the shins as hard as his tiny leg would permit. The father picked up the little boy, pulled up his tiny shirt and planted a loud, delicious, blubbering kiss on the little guys tummy in such a way to make him squeal with delight.
Did he give him what he wanted? Of course he did. All we ever want is love in it's appropriate form.

Gloria tells us so gently: "Through eons, the human heart has remained true. In man or woman, the human heart is as it always was. There is the individuality of each being, and yet there is also the universality of Oneness." To make this work in real life requires unconditional love given without desire of anything in return. You don't have to agree with their taste but you have to taste the desires of their heart. Try it you'll like it. This really works wonders in life.

George Son bathing

Beloved George, Gloria tells

Beloved George, Gloria tells you nothing. She reads Heavenletters just like anyone else, except I "hear" them first. The wisdom is from God alone.

Gloria probably wont tell me either

Your love is better than wine, your hearing is better than mine but you've not been kissed by a Llama I'll bet. So there.

George mystified by everything

I could die laughing

Sweet Gloria:

Tell us please this business about your reading the Heaven Letter just like anyone else but you "hear", did you say "hear", them first?
We, who park our minds on your every word, need to know where you go to "hear" them so, if it's possible we can tune into the same broadcast.
Honey do you have to light candles and blow smoke rings so you can hear, or do you just get under the bed, or below your desk and a big voice says: "GLORIA" "now hear this" Then comes the golden words you share with us.
Just kidding, I love what you hear and share darling one. You make my day, every day. Thanks

George up to his old stuff

I love this question, dear

I love this question, dear George.

I believe I hear -- very subtly. More like I hear God's words inside my head. The words come from somewhere. I receive them. I know the difference between what I hear from God and my own writing.

Once, only once, I had the experience, while I was Godwriting, of my arms becoming golden light, and, at that moment, I believed that the Godwriting came from my DNA and was somehow memory.

While I receive God's messages, they are new to me. I do not know what is going to come. I kinda close my eyes and trust that I'm getting is as it is given.

Heavenletters are now written about seven weeks before they are sent out, and many many times, as I read the Heavenletter it is just as you read it. I hardly remember it, and I learn something from it. How privileged I feel.

Now, you be quiet, children, so you can hear what I'm hearing

"Mamma tell us about your golden arm, was it just colored gold, or did it itch or anything?"
"Hush!, now, children,_ it's starting to move and I don't want it to miss my mind,_ after all, it's got to have some meaning."
"Oh, come on, tell us more, momma."
"Be quiet, Momma talking!"
"Well, listen real close and I'll try to explain." The "golden part isn't a color, or texture, or metal, it's a divine kind of light, a light, bearing information that helps me see where you're trying to go so you won't fall."
"A golden light!, that's neat, can we see that sort of thing too, on us? Huh? Huh?"
"Come on Kids, it's bed time, in tomorrows "light" you will see what I mean. OK?"
So, we toddled off to bed to wait for tomorrow's light. It comes every day and even at night!" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (next day)
"Is it true Momma, that the people upstairs have to move or learn to be real quiet?"
"It helps."
"Can we get them invaders to move out?"
"In time, Daddy kicks them out so you can live in peace."
"What's that feel like?"
"Nothing you'd understand yet. But in time you'll know."

Gloria dear, your beautiful words spoke to all of us children. I do so want them to see your "golden arm" and feel its love like I do.. I want us all to move into that place you so beautifully described. But most of us are tiny kid who still believe in ghosts. Stay subtle sweet one.

George home on the range

Hi Each this one also very

Hi Each this one also very true,,, while i have been away. I have found that by sewing and stitching and creating gifts of love giving to another a present... to see their face light up and smile... their eyes sparkle... and to make another person happy isn't this what life is all about Luv Karen

I will make a giant fruit

I will make a giant fruit salad, of Apples, Oranges, Mangoes, Banana, strawberries, kiwi fruit.... Grapes., make some sandwiches and we can have party Luv Karen

Karen, would you put in some Avocados for me?

Karen, I'd love to help you and your loved ones eat that salad but I'l insist on an Avocado or two. Maybe you can make a little side dish for this old man. Love you and your words.

George smacking his lips

Hi George ummm Avocados of

Hi George ummm Avocados of course no problem never thought of that before... along with some peaches... How good God is Luv Karen

Sweet Karen

What a spread, I'll be there, or somewhere.

George meddling as much as possible

Our Oneness

Gloria said, in response to Mary’s comment, above: “There is nothing that says that every Heavenletter has to be the ultimate one for us. I bet, however, that here is someone who will feel deeply about this Heavenletter.”

I am one of those who feels deeply about this Heavenletter. In fact, it feels to me to be one of the most important of the hundreds I have read. I have been struggling with the concept of a universal connection or “oneness” for many years. Mystics, of course, have been telling us about our essential oneness for thousands of years, but, as I ponder their words, it has been hard for me to experience this oneness except on an intellectual level that agrees with the logic that all that exists must originate from one Source.

I have a partial background in physics, and this concept of oneness took on new relevance as I explored the implications of quantum mechanics and the reports of recent physics research. The experiments are clearly saying that while every particle in the universe is separate and unique, they are all also a part of one universal wave that connects all particles instantaneously and without regard to distance. This research underscores for me the truth and importance of our interconnectedness, yet it is hard to integrate this knowledge with the separateness and independence that our physical senses so powerfully attest to. Logic seems to demand that it be either one or the other.

This Heavenletter helps by affirming both oneness and separateness, supporting a growing awareness that both oneness and separateness exist simultaneously as essential aspects of our reality. Separateness sort of gets in our face and oneness hides behind the scenes. We don’t need the Heavenletters to tell us about our individual experience, but the pointing out of our the connectedness, that is so easily obscured by our physicality and individuality, is an invaluable service.

Thank you, Gloria, for being the conduit of this blessing.

Hi, Chuck!!

"...but, as I ponder their words, it has been hard for me to experience this oneness except on an intellectual level that agrees with the logic that all that exists must originate from one Source."

Oh, Yay!! Someone here who has had the experience that the mind can be aligned with the heart. (There IS a HL to this effect, saying that we don't need to change shoes/mindset/consciousness when we enter/exit the arena of life -- an ultimate goal, perhaps.)

Hi, Chuck!!

In "practical application"/over-simplification of the concept, may I share with you a bit? Consider it a parable of quantum physics: My parents were absolutely wonderful and God-oriented people. However, they conspired (LOL!!) to have us children such that we arrived at responsible adulthood over several decades of fast-moving change/evolution. They also "left their mark big-time of who their God was" on each of us. Thank God!!

My brothers and sister and I are SO different...and were SO encouraged to pursue our individuality (My Daddy's mantra was "Think for Yourself"), and with the fast-moving evolution of mankind that established "biggie-wowie" gaps between the sixties, seventies, and eighties my siblings and I have agreed that we could just as well have come from different planets.

Most of the time, the ONLY thing we have in common is our respect and gratitude to God that our parents instilled in us. On this we ENTHUSIASTICALLY agree!! Not a doubt, absolute concurrence, "OUR RALLYING POINT" big-time.

We think each other's "lost their mind" in their pursuit of what constitutes "happy life". But...when it comes to WHO GOD IS we are "joined at the hip". So we laughingly are supportive of each other in our right to "pursuit of happiness", and yet happily bonded in the Source of Happiness.

Now...is this "about" our parents, or about God?? Both, in our case...but not all have that "experience", so I am sharing...

The Ultimate Field, being quickly recognized is our Godness-in-Common!! Yay!!
Regards,
Bonnie

Bonnie this is so very beautiful

You mind Bonnie is God's gift to all of us. Thanks honey.

George thinking of a comment but can't

Dear Chuck,

I liked this Heavenletter™ when I read it but did not consider it one of the sparkling ones. Your comment has changed that. And look how many comments it gets, 31 so far.

Chuck, I think your comment shows the exact extent of how far our intellect can get in understanding Oneness. I don't understand it, but I sometimes get a sense of it for a moment, and that vague sense of Oneness makes it quite easy for me to accept even the more outrageous sounding things God says. You are everyone and everyone is you. This isn't too difficult, I can understand it as a metaphor meaning something like "universal connectedness". But Everyone shares the same spot. - well, that's different, isn't it?

It can only be experienced. And as I said, I have sometimes had a sense of it. You can see it. Quite suddenly you see that indeed everything is One and without spatial or temporal extension; and that you don't exist the way you thought you did. You are simply all of it, the sense of localization of your I-ness is temporarily gone.

Jochen hits very close to center on this one

It's late and I don't have time to really comment but I must say you are very close to the Center!

George sucking in his breath

More on Oneness

Bonnie, what a beautiful metaphor of your brothers and sisters being so different yet never wavering from a deeper Truth. Your parents are a blessing to not only you and your family but also to the many others that are washed over by the waves of love that you lovely folks generate. Thank you for your vote of confidence, but I’m not so sure that my mind is all that well aligned with my heart. I feel myself to be way over involved with my intellect and reasoning, worrying about the future and what is happening in the world. I feel like my intellect has truly barricaded and stifled my heart and I long for the fullness of the love I have always felt in my heart to see the light of day.

These Heavenletters are a huge re-orientation for me. These words turn many of my most important assumptions about life as well as my plans and goals inside out and upside down. It scares me to throw out the work and struggles of a lifetime in favor of beautiful and inspiring ideas I just seem to have happened across on the internet. But this feels way down deep to be precisely what I need to do. In the process, I am beginning to feel more at peace, more empowered and more fulfilled as I dive headlong through the roiling surf of my fears and insecurities, struggling to trust my heart.

Jochen, thanks for you kind comments. I love reading your input. If I understand the promise of these Letters, some day we will all be constantly experiencing a sublime knowledge of oneness even as we go about our individual daily lives. This does sound like heaven to me.

This is such a lovely dialogue. What a privilege to be part of it!

Chuck

some day we will

Chuck, only weeks or perhaps just days ago, I might have answered something like "I certainly hope so" or "that's what I suspect will happen". Today I can tell you with certainty that you are absolutely right about Oneness and individuality being no contradiction at all.

You can find much more on this using the link "oneness" under "Related Topics" at the bottom of this Heavenletter.

Chuck and Jochen

You both tuned into the essence of what Bonnie was feeling. Your comments exploded her thoughts into a consciousness that will, one day, take the form of day by day living. This is the Way, the Truth and the Life, for a beautiful searching heart. i commend you both!

George thinking Bonnie is so blessed to have you

Just really lovely this so

Just really lovely this so moved me... I would like to share a dream... I am at a crossroads in my life... well some of you know.. last night i had a special dream i would like to share... I have taken up art after not doing any for at least 40 years and also wondering whether i could be teaching English as a foreign language... i am needing more qualifications i had a vision last night of Christ standing very high and tall, on his face was a kindly expression... lovingly looking down on all the Great masters in the Art world and writers of literature.. I still don't know what the dream means... but Wow... i just think that we are all at Oneness... Luv Daisy

Waking up to dream? How strange!

Darling Daisy to dream such a dream you have to be wide awake in HIS kingdom of light.
I trust that the spirit of Truth will show you the many artistic things your sleeping, unconscious has done while your essence was lost in what you thought was unconscious dreaming. You just left out the earth forms we give to reality. You state that you don't know what the dream means as you tell us all that it means ONENESS. CHRIST teases us by letting us dream HIM as tall even as HE stands in us who dream we are small.

We all live in the same place, always have always will because it's the only God place available to us. It's the instant of living. It's what we call the Now, it's what my heart enjoys while trying to stop my finger from bleeding. His chuckle made it all ok but I helped it stop bleeding.

When my heart escaped through my eyes at my darling's transfer to a higher class coach I soon adjusted to HIS comfort and ran quickly to the forest of memory's lane of sweetness taking the form of looking back but relishing what was coming down the divine tracks. The answer is not to try to change life's structure but to change the way we look. He's all over the place. Don't you just love HIM? I love you

George still dreaming he's alive

2 Heavenletter Haikus for

2 Heavenletter Haikus for you

Hello Friends,

God said of Oneness
Each person is everyone
One heart to One Heart

God said to give joy
Give to the form of yourself
Who stands before you

Love, Light and Aloha!

Heaven's lighthouse

You sweet Karen must live there to come up with such Light! I really love you

George squinting again

Hi George...you know

Hi George...you know George... the place i am in is a bit drab... and needs doing up.. I think my heart is in the right place, i remember though after a dream being a bit cross.. as it woke me up and i didn't want the vision to come to an end... Luv Daisy

Quote + Just for You 4-26-17 Update

"Give people what they want and not necessarily what you think is better. You may prefer apples, and someone asks you for an orange. Give them an orange. Give someone what they want. Do not save your heart for a rainy day."

Quote above oh so sweet!....And Just for You 4-26-17 Update...The first three packets are headed to California tomorrow....two will be handed out at A course of Miracle and A Way of Mastery meetings in Sacramento, Ca and the other one goes to, possibly, the Yogananda Center in Encinitas...God of course is orchestrating all of this....I just stay in Service.....So Beautiful....much love.....Jim(i)....ps.....last night....Gabe (another friend)...just handed out 26 scrolls...to people at the local Safeway....