One of the problems we have today, every single one of us, is we’ve been living in our intellect, not our Hearts. We live from the mental plane, in the ego of our lesser selves, where we can be in CONTROL of all actions and thoughts. And if we’re in control of our thoughts, then letting new ones in becomes a bit of a challenge, since our lesser egos are attached.
There is a great difference between knowing what is best intellectually and feeling our Truth within our Hearts. Intellectually, it’s our little self that is in control, where spiritually, our Self is behind the wheel of our vehicle.
As a recommendation, I suggest we change our priorities.
How willing are we of letting go of our attachments? It means breaking out of our comfort zones.
The only number one priority in my life should be ‘me’. Bringing in realization and acceptance, totally and wholly within my Heart and, FEELING the Bliss, the Joy, the Harmony and the Love.
Sue Ann Edwards
tumel
and in re-reading this time I found...
Surface Earth
September 3rd, 2007 - 5:54 pm
Sue, have you mapped out chakras 8-14, or has it been done before by someone else? Was it done recently?
We rise, surely we do, as we spiritually progress. Do we progress into chakra 12, “all-heart”? Do we progress into chakra 13, “all-3rd eye”? Has this been established yet?
Is this chakra 8-14 thing an aspect of the new dispensation? Or has it been around for some time?
September 3rd, 2007 - 6:15 pm
Hi Joe!
I went ’shopping’ for some links for you. Most other links to these works have been pulled off the internet.
A Treatis on Cosmic Fire
http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/OMM.GB/WomenWriters/AliceBailey/Fire/toc.html
Initiation Human and Solar
http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/OMM.GB/WomenWriters/AliceBailey/Initiation/toc.html
The seven rays
http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/OMM.GB/WomenWriters/AliceBailey/SevenRays/Astrology/toc.html
They are works attributed to Djwal Kul
Smiles
September 3rd, 2007 - 6:32 pm
Thank you Sue
I will look at them now.
I was meditating on the violet flame just a few moments ago; I may have passed the cruxefiction stage, I’m not sure, but I was thinking about family, my own family, etc, and I realized that my mother was not my only mother, every woman is everyone’s mother, every man is every man’s brother.
Does this speak to you in any way?
Also – 3 dimensional color – specifically red/orange/gold, all together in the same color, and somehow 3-dimensional, existing all in the same space – does this mean anything to you? Transcending the space that it fills, but existing within it? Is this established anywhere?
2000 years – 7 levels – on to the next level – transcendence. Are we experiencing new phenomenon?
Are you also able to feel the coming shift Sue?
It’s becoming more familiar now, this new space.
Lots of impressions, but that’s all for now.
September 3rd, 2007 - 6:47 pm
Yes…..’mother’ is an energy, a resonance, of Nurturing. Where ever we see nurturing, we are seeing Divine Mom.
Red is Root chakra. Orange is navel/sacral. With a yellow/gold at our Solar Plexus. Buddhas of activity. I bet it’s these energy centers that are shifting and the violet is alinging and balancing.
Yes, we’re experiencng new phenomenon…or very shortly will.
And yes, I can feel the shifting. Collectively we’re moaning and groaning like the Tinman in the Wizard of Oz, ‘oil can, oil can’.
These couple of weeks between the lunar eclipse and the solar eclipse are usually looloos. That’s what we’re in the middle of now.
People are feeling tired. Restless. Upset tummies abound. Maybe Debbie would share some of what she’s been picking up? I know she’s ‘here’. I can FEEEEEEL her.
September 3rd, 2007 - 7:06 pm
My grandpa used to say about colorful people “you’re quite a character” with a big friendly grin and a twinkle in his eye – you’re quite a character Sue
I’m going to email you later with some of my impressions of what I’m experiencing, anyone who’s following your blog is probably tired of me moaning and groaning by now
But that part is over, I think – but I can appreciate your post a few weeks back about experiencing new things as we reach new levels of enlightenment now.
This computer monitor is pulling the life out of me though, I need to get away from the computer for a good while. Computer sickness
– Ask the Japanese! 
You’re a good worker Sue, you’ve said to me before, why do it hard when you can do it easy, but that doesn’t make the work that you do any less than it is. It’s the most honest work there is.
Signing off!
Sue – I thought I was enlightened by you on the Taoism blog, but this blog chronicled it. Steps to steps, manifestations to manifestations. Similar but different – but in terms of living within our minds or within our hearts, do there need to be any similarities, from manifestation to manifestation?
Maybe the question becomes, what are the similarities, and why do they happen? I think that infinity can become any model – why do the models have to have these similarities?
Or am I using my mind too much?
In any case, I have been using the computer too much! Take care
Love,
Joe
September 3rd, 2007 - 9:24 pm
GRINNING
I’m the lady that wears pink piggy slippers to the grocery store. I’m the lady that leaps out her car window, when the door is stuck shut. I’m the lady with white dots all over her face standing in line buying more paint. I’m the lady that wears one of those half halloween masks as I drive on Halloween and smile real big at drivers who pull along side and look.
I like to make Light.
It’s healing to laugh together instead of at each other.
I keeping sharing with you…if you rush at a herd of cows they scatter and run. You wear yourself out tryng to catch one.
Gather your inner momentum. Give yourself the experience of it, over time and through experiences and wonders of your own choosing. As you do, you will be walking down the hill, saving your momentum for when it counts.
For making love to the whole herd.
For your own Joy, as well as, theirs.
September 4th, 2007 - 5:17 am
I think I am just a touch lost in this conversation and why I do not make comments, but I still read and wish to know more about chakras now and I do like how one of the links mentioned astrology as well.:)
September 4th, 2007 - 5:24 am
of attachments, I try to think of what I am attached to mentally, but I am unsure of what kind of things these might be.
September 4th, 2007 - 5:44 am
I came upon this little test just now and quickly did it without thinking too much. These are my results, it seems I must open my throat more, which I know!:) and must try not to think too much about things as well, which I know too that I do too much of sometimes:)
http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/chakraevaltest.php
September 4th, 2007 - 9:23 am
These were how I tested:
Root: under-active (19%)
Sacral: under-active (6%)
Navel: open (50%)
Heart: open (31%)
Throat: open (69%)
Third Eye: over-active (81%)
Crown: over-active (75%)
Sue, I thought about starting another blog today, I’ve had one titled “rumblings of the global awakening” sitting for awhile; but somehow it doesn’t feel like the thing to do.
In any case, it’s probably best to email on most of the stuff we’ve talked about – I sent you one at 3am last night – couldn’t sleep! that’s very, very rare for me.
I figured I should post the scores I got, if only for illustration.
’til later!
September 4th, 2007 - 9:48 am
Sue I’ve just realized something -
The most emotionally intelligent show on television right now is Sesame Street. This is not a joke, it’s my complete genuine belief.
Some kids shows express sympathy, rather than compassion, but Sesame Street has it.
They were just singing about eating colors – amazing insight into the qualities that our foods can bring us. Subversive stuff
The voice of the revolutionary paradigm!
Over and out!
September 4th, 2007 - 10:24 am
Hi Tumel
,
Honestly, the links to the works by Djwal Kul were over my head too. A lot of symbolic language for things that I don’t have any reference for in my own life experience. But I think he thinks differently than I do in some way, whether it be emotional or intellectual thinking.
The book that I have by D.K. has illustrations of different chakra states, and speaks about the most common imbalances that people have and stuff like that.
I’m very much a “picture person”, as I find the most meaning in the way that the image is crafted – little nuances here and there speaking of different emotions, ideas, concepts, so really the only things from his works that I yet understand are what I’ve gleaned from the illustrations, alongside the explanations which were presented with the illustrations in the book.
Also he talked about the ‘violet flame’, in an illustration which I felt spoke to me in some way about my own “chakra state”.. it is a way of meditation, of calling on transformative power to awaken and balance our chakras.
Here’s a good link to an explanation of it:
The Violet Flame
But Tumel, when you speak about not feeling that you have attachments to things, I think that you are probably correct in feeling this way. How did you score on the ‘heart’ chakra? Sue’s taught me a lot about finding answers from our feelings, instead of from thinking. The heart is the avenue through which we experience feeling in the world.
Mine was blocked for a good while, but it’s been about 2 weeks since Sue showed me this, and I’m in a whole different world of experience now.
The heart chakra brings balance to all of the other chakras – it’s in the middle, and it’s from the heart chakra which we meditate on the ‘violet flame’. Have you tried meditation before?
I’ve tried other forms, but I’ve found the violet flame to be tranformative. Maybe it feels like you don’t have attachments, because you are trying to ‘think’ of whether you do, instead of to ‘feel’ whether you do.
but you may not have any at all – truly a peaceful spirit! The heart chakra can help you to feel that peace.
Maybe Sue has some insights into these notions?
September 4th, 2007 - 12:04 pm
{{{{tumel}}}}
Thank you Dear.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
{{Joe}} is versed in Buddhist philosphy. It is the ‘door’ he walked through to get here. So, I wrote in symbols of that system. He’s also brilliant, using math to sing notes of perfection.
What Joe did, was willingly dance with me, as we gradually shifted the focus from intellect to heart.
The minute we’re in our intellect is the minute we’re lost, most of the time. For our intellect is under the operating orders of our lessor egos. To let go of intellectual attachments, when our sense of esteem and worth has been attached to it, isn’t an easy thing to do. But he did it. Right out in the open, teaching by example of what it means to shift.
He shifted from solar plexus(yellow) to heart(green). I sent out a wave to his root, sort of kicked him in it, (rolling my eyes), expressing I didn’t think much of sitting on it. It’s not Loving to negate or deny the value of our own Passion.
“Chakras” are symbolic of energy vortices. Like little fans spinning. They are pictured as running up our spinal column, depicting a ‘pillar of light’. The object of the ‘game’ is to get all ‘chakras’ spinning in unison, then accelerate the speed of the spin.
These are all abstractions. The point I keep attempting to convey, is all the abstract concepts in the univese don’t help one bit unless we understand how to apply them in ways of practical application.
Don’t give me a washing machine with so much electronic touch pad stuff that it looks like I’m going to have to learn how to fly it. Give me one with a high rpm in the drum, that will spin more water out of my laundry and cut drying time down to 1/3.
See what I mean?
The links I shared, were with Joe in mind and anyone else who’s is interested in that avenue. Those works are highly abstract and guaranteed to give anyone headaches if they delve into them for long at one sitting. But they are just the kind of thing Joe likes and absorbs.
For you {{tumel}}, since you expressed interest, I share this one:
http://www.alphalifetrends.com
There’s more there then meets the eye but it’s not especially heaped in abstractions. Symbols, yes. Abstractions….not that much.
I also —> to links on my sidebar. Just unobstrusive little things I haven’t shed much light upon. I haven’t finished all the sections yet. But there you will find, the Esoteric, inner interpretations, one level of ourselves at a time, one aspect of ourselves at a time, one ‘energy’, flavor, color, at a time, of what it inside every single one of us.
I simply used the symbols Sun(self), Moon(emotions), Mercury(imagination), Venus(attraction), Mars(action), Jupiter(belief)…it’s a work in progress. These also correspond to the same ‘insight’ as ‘chakras’.
Intuition is a sensory experience. We can’t ‘think’ it. We have to allow ourselves to become aware of it.
I love you, Tumel…
September 4th, 2007 - 1:19 pm
I took the test….
Roaring on the floor…the results tickled me…
It makes me suspect the authors of the test, when scoring 100% in all of them is called OVER ACTIVE.
rofl
rofl
Inspires me to ask “by whose standards?”
Yes Joe, by the results you shared you’re top heavy. Open your heart and Love your ‘lower nature’. Allow your Beauty to Love your Beast.
Your scores show a decided concentration above the waist but not much below. Allow the fire of your Creative Spirit, expression. That’d be the root.
At the root, on one side is black and on the other side is white. RED is in the middle. This symbolizes that, free of judgment, there really isn’t any positive nor negative (black and white), there is only Creativity. If we don’t like ‘negative’, then Prudence would dictate we find out how and why we keep creating so much of it.
For instance, no matter how much sugar I pour into a mud pie to make it taste sweeter, I’ve still got a mud pie. My Husband once tried that as a child and, he went through 10 pounds of his mother’s sugar before she caught him.
No matter how much Sympathy we express upon the suffering of our World, there is always MORE. No matter how many wounds are tended, we keep getting them.
I’m saying the reason is because we haven’t addressed the real issues, the real causes. And when we do, the suffering will decrease, until it is no more.
THAT’S what I call ‘Being Compassionate’. Desiring that it be as if it never existed in the first place.
Grinning REAL big…
And that is what, in essence, in practical application, the Violet Flame activates.
Joe, use of it in meditation, will clear your Heart of obstructions, so that more love will be reaching your lower centers.
As it does it, recall my fan blade analogy…as the blades spin faster, guk starts flying off the blades. Issues, suppressed feelings…
Keep in mind they will be flying FREE. It’ll just be dust kicked up. Clarity will return as the dust settles. Someplace else besides stuck to your fan blades.
Joe, I had’;t ever thought about it before you mentioned it but, yes, I would believe Sesame Street is the most emotionally intelligent show on TV. I’d like to take most of the female role models on TV and stand them in the corner for conduct unbecoming a lady. So you don’t really want to get me going on what we’re shown on tv.
Instead of listening to the TV this morning, my husband and I discussed how I’d like to put a smoker in the belly of the giant metal dinosaur he wants to build in the back yard. So smoke could come out its nose whenever I cook.
My Husband, who Proudly wears a t-shirt saying;
“My Next Wife Will Be NORMAL”, with ‘normal’ in big flourescent green letters.
He sends his comments to you Joe, saying, “Ire as a result to something I’ve said? Try fuc**n’ pissed off. And it’s the reason I am the Light of his Life, or so he says.
September 4th, 2007 - 1:40 pm
Hmmm….attachments….
how about our attachments to what other people think and feel about us?
For I have disocvered it doesn’t really matter what other people think and how other people feel as much as it matters how we think of ourselves and how we feel about ourselves. I can think and feel very highly about someone’s worth but until they do, it’s not going to make any difference it them.
I can pour water down my sink all day and none of it will flow through the pipes if I’ve got my pipes clogged. That’s the way it is with most of our heart centers. Thye’re clogged by conditions.
See “Emotions”.
If it’s my body and my brain and my hypothalumus, then they are MY emotions. Under MY dominion. And I don’t mean by controlling or repressing or suppressing. I mean by CREATING.
We don’t have to CONTROL our emotions, once we find out why we’re feeling them. Most of what we’re feeling is coming from our solar plexus and not our hearts. And a simple shift from solar plexus to heart, (from fear/doubt to love/assured) dispels the emotion. It’s a shift in perspective.
The key to no one pushing our buttons, is to have no buttons.
September 4th, 2007 - 3:25 pm
I’ve never dealt well with anger, honestly, never really dealt well with conflict. I’m sure that this has a WHOLE lot to do with not claiming my own creative passion/ability, and therefore in some strange way seeming to claim more than I do claim, or to step on toes which I haven’t stepped on.
I’m a live-and-let-live guy, to the core of my being. I could be called a hermit, but it only would seem that way to someone, on the surface of things.
I’ve been ashamed to say it, but I’m a virgin at 28 years old. Why ashamed? I suppose because I’m old fashioned, but such a thing is almost considered strange in society today, being old fashioned. What is strange to me, is society.
Men are supposed to be strong, to take what they want, and to be driven by their desires – that’s what the TV/movies would make us think. And so, that’s the pattern.
I’ve never lived according to the patterns of society, and so, society hasn’t understood me. There is an archetype, and we must fit it, “or else”.
Or else what? I won’t be myself. So, you play along, you play the game, you pretend to value the same things that society values, but inside you are opposed to it. So you find opposition, in the form of the passions of society.
We each own our creative passion, but the problem is that we don’t feel comfortable in accepting ourselves in terms of what we REALLY want to create in the world.
I want to create peace for everyone, reconciliation, recognition of the sacredness of family, fidelity, being true to those who we love. If I spend my time trying to pretend that that isn’t my creative passion, I will be misunderstood, and my creative passion will be doused by the rains of dis-illusionment.
So that’s where that comes from.
Sometimes life is a rollercoaster. I almost got hit by a car behind me while driving today – I went off of the freeway exit, and rounded the corner, and boom, there were a stack of stopped cars right in front of me, where I didn’t expect any cars to be.
I had time to stop, but did the guy behind me? I made sure that I’d come to a stop, and calmly looked into the rearview mirror – a truck was coming at me – yep, good chance he could hit me. I looked ahead of me – a bit of room left between me and the car ahead of me. I was still moving a bit. I took my foot off the break, and came to a stop with no room left.
Tires squeeling the truck came to stop behind me. I smiled into the rearview mirror at the guy driving the truck. No harm, no foul.
A little bit of an adrenaline rush going, I continued toward the store, my original destination. No harm, no foul.
I wrote this next part before reading your comments Sue, I didn’t want to lose the clarity of what I’d realized a bit ago:
Sue I haven’t read your last 2 comments yet – I want to share a huge insight that I’ve just had, before I lose the essence of it.
I was practicing playing the guitar; I’ve gotten a very unconventional guitar teaching book, “Fretboard Logic”; It has all kinds of information on basically what a guitarist needs to know simply to play the guitar, rather than on music theory or anything like this.
I realized this when I came across a quote in the book by Elvis Presley.. he said “I don’t know anything about music. In my line of work you don’t have to.”
The book deals with the fretboard itself, rather than airy and esoteric thoughts of music theory.
But when I saw that quote, I realized – you don’t have to know anything about music to play the guitar. Feeling instead of knowing, going with the flow instead of spending every ounce of your effort on trying to find the roadsigns.
Reading the instruction manual first is absolutely imperative, especially if you don’t know the roads. But eventually the bookcase is together, in spite of all of the strangely translated directions on the “construction” manual. Or should I say, the guitar is together.
Then you can just play. And you don’t have to know anything about music to play well! But it takes some willingness to get your strings tuned first to play a harmonious tune.
There’s references to this concept in Taoism too, but in the past it’s been a “can’t see the forest for the trees” thing for me with Taoism – Taoism itself isn’t the forest, but it was may way to get out of the forest. That’s why I cancelled that blog, like you said, it was a series of abstractions.
Truly transformative.
I was curiously unsure about the “overactive” thing too on the test – I think they are mistaking having an imbalanced state – ie a few chakras being way out of balance compared to the level of the others, with meaning that having a fast-spinning chakra is a bad thing. Like all things in life, it’s about balance.
September 4th, 2007 - 5:31 pm
I’ll be off working on other things for awhile Sue. It seems like every time a chakra re-awakens, it’s a bumpy ride.
Tell your husband “Hello!” for me, with respect. It’s a wonderful idea, creating the dinosaur. Whimsy keeps us happy, otherwise it wouldn’t be Wonderland!
We live in strange times, writing has always been the easiest way to communicate with people, throughout history, but these days we tend to write mostly to people who would be otherwise unfamiliar to us. The internet is both a balm for the seeker and part of the experience of separation; but I think this is part of the growing pains, it’s hard to face one’s own willpower in the world, we’ve all been there. Every step of the Way.
Sometimes the most difficult part is acceptance. But the freedom is the key. And ultimately I’m not sure that it’s we ourselves who turn the lock. How do we sit back into restfulness, and work on the lock at the same time? I think the key turns on its own.
Anyway, pretty esoteric, and sometimes difficult to think about, but it’s the thinking that’s the issue.
Peace alights like a dove, and then is the rest. But I say all of this with respect, and for now I’ll take my leave. I understand the battle.
September 4th, 2007 - 6:01 pm
It is wonderful and loving you are going with musical self expression. Musical theory crammed down my throat was what inspired me to stop playing music. You feel, you play. Simple as that.
You’re allowing some self expression to come forth. Your Heart is opening.
And I understand about your Values, for my youngest son shares the same. He desires depth of intimacy. I have told him and share with you now, that are you become more intimate with our own feelings, so will your life begin to reflect that same inimacy. Ladies of depth will begin popping up all over the place.
You are taking great strides in loving yourself.
There is one thing, though, that if you can hear me, would make all the difference in your understanding.
The ‘knowing’ you have expressed, is an intellectual ‘knowing’. It is a product of our mental faculties. As in, knowledge.
I could sit here all day and razzle dazzle with intellect. But for me, it means nothing. It’s worthless unless tempered with heart felt understanding. I.Q. has no value to me, either. I’m one of the ’show me you know something useful to do with it’ kinds of person.
Besides, using intellect as a means to razzle and dazzle, as an attachment of our worth and value, is Unequitable and, the basis for a lot of negative judgments towards those of us not so inclined.
One of my relatives is a very simple man. I admire him greatly and have told him so. he will tell a tale of mishap and tell you, “I just stopped and talk to God. God, I know I’m a stupid man, a fool and I’ve messed up again. Will you please help me.”
He’s always helped. His Faith is that pure.
He doesn’t need smarts, because he has heart.
When I say KNOW, I am speaking of a state beyond thinking. It is a KNowing of our Hearts, beyond any explanations. When we have it, we don’t need any exlanations, it simply Is there.
I could understand ‘over active’ if there was any imbalance. But not when ALL of them are 100%.
Just ‘improbable’ according to “old” standards. But absolutely necessary, according to ‘new’ ones.
September 4th, 2007 - 7:52 pm
So ultimately we aren’t wrestling with ourselves, we’re wrestling with God. I say Oh man, but I’m saying it for myself alone. that’s all it is. that’s letting go of attachments.
the will holds onto itself, the mind holds onto itself, and a person is subject to what they hold onto. We can’t create from a state of attachment, we can moreso as we go along, but not yet truly, not for me.
I think perhaps a bull is driven by his passions, his creative force, almost exclusively. But you can’t create without a proper lamp to see with, not purely. Why are the bull’s horns turned into his 3rd eye?
Somehow my 3rd eye is blocking some rays – any insights Sue?
Yes I see myself tramping around stepping on toes like a proud buffoon, unable to see my own reflection, and taking that for proof of purity.
The 10,000 things become the last few things, it hasn’t been a fruitless chase, or wasted effort.
There’s more, but it’s hard to encapsulate – - why try?
I have the “web developer tools” toolbar on my web browser – one of the buttons is “view source”. I want to click it!
Is it that easy somehow?
I just want to be able to be a decent person – my density has held me back from that, even if indirectly. It’s been so long!
Somehow the creative power expands on all levels, and it takes intense effort to keep it pure.
All of these ideas are forming into one idea, that’s all it’s been all along – 10,000 ideas into 1. Then that idea goes.
I’m comfortable now in left field, that’s probably pretty clear
lol
I’ve been a fool, been a fool, been a fool. there’s a good tune!
I’m near the door Sue, but I’m feeling mighty sheepish. I can only hit the button.
September 4th, 2007 - 8:36 pm
{{JOe}}}
Why do you think I claim to be a Complete Idiot?
The Purity of Creation is held in a Womb of UNconditional Love.
Un conditional.
That is what is so Immaculate about the Concept itself.
We need not worry or concern ourselves with ‘either/or’. Everything is And.
Take the most horrendus personality you’ve ever imagined and yes, even they are embraced. For behind every single one of our Passions, is a reason, why we are Passionate about it.
Fidelity is Holding the Faith.
We start with Faith in ourselves. Faith in the Power to move mountains in our Hearts.
As one Bull to another, yes, I now the experience. I also know the experience of being so insecure I was passionate about being liked, about being acknowledged and being accepted. What I found out is the reason my Passions were so fueled, is because deep down I didn’t really love myself very much.
I was afraid other people were going to mirror back to me what I thought and felt about myself. because they usually did. Little did I understand the Law of Attraction.
I was uncomfortable around and with Humanity, because I was uncomfortable with my own. In learning to Love my own, I became qualified to call myself a Humanitarian.
To err is human.
To forgive is Divine.
Ooopsie!
The Dunce hat is sure a lot ease-ier to wear then the brilliant one. You can relax a lot more, too.
Well come to the club.
{{hug}}
September 5th, 2007 - 6:45 am
Sue Ann and Joe, thank you so very much for the openness in discussing this here. I thought I had posted my results of this test but it seems that when I ctrled c’ed the link it copied the site’s address and not the results.
My results showed my charkas open, except for the crown being overactive and my throat underactive, which makes me realize what I believe I know about myself and must work on has truth:) that I am wary of expressing what I think to others that I do not know very well. I realize it is not really about words, that I say I cannot find sometimes, it is because I am not open enough with what I wish to express which causes the lack of words I think, and this I know, is my insecurity, or my not letting go of what I attach to this feeling.
My crown being overactive is an over-analazation I believe of things, which I do know I do at times when I should simply listen to what my heart tells me, for I do so strongly believe as well that the heart is what gives you balance and through meditation perhaps the time is taken to really listen to what it says. I do not think it would ever steer you wrong and even if what you feel in your heart does not match what others feel, it should not really matter, because it is simply you and your heart speaking
and if it causes noone any harm intentionally, especially yourself, then it is pure I think.
I feel we are all born with a pure and open heart, but circumstances around us cause us to close it up a bit sometimes, along with how pure it feels, A protection maybe, with so many different degrees and it is the opening up of this again, getting it back to how it was when we were first born and trusting it that is maybe difficult sometimes.
With me, my heart is more open than it is closed. I have no idea why, but I believe it is because I was so fortunate not to have had experiences in my early years that caused me a need to protect it and which I still can remember. I know as well though, that it is not as open as it should be, the way it was when I was first born but when I listen to it, when I take the time to really really listen to it, it is the time when I feel most secure and balanced, and I have found that when I take the time to listen with my heart, to what others say, when all other things are silent except what it is in my heart, that I hear what is in the hearts of others speaking as well.
I have just realized, just when writing this:) how much our hearts affect our minds, and I think now that how open our minds are, is really just how open our hearts are.
September 5th, 2007 - 7:07 am
and is what I realize, when I read back that you both have been discussing all along I think:) so thank you so much again.
September 5th, 2007 - 10:12 am
I wanted to return here quickly as I go away and away from easy access to computers for 4 – 5 days as well, to say that there is still so much I wish to read here, and of the links you have both provided as well, thank you for these too, I am thinking I might print them to take with me to read:).
September 5th, 2007 - 10:34 am
{{{tumel}}}
You have expressed yourself beautifully.
Well written and beautifully expressed.
{{hugs}}
Enjoy your days away from the computer!
November 2nd, 2009 - 3:03 pm
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