Open or Closed ...

The title for this week's Post comes from the on-going realization that, fundamentally, the state of one's heart is the quintessential most important thing whilst we have one, i.e. whilst we are walking this Earth plane existence.  When we are relaxed and opening and softening in our heart, we're in something of Home; something of what is deeper than our accustomed self/person, and all beyond the norm of this world; in something of our magical Being ...  When we are distracted from that and believing thoughts and feelings designed to keep us imprisoned in the Matrix, it's all too easy to be closed and hard in our heart.  But such closing and hardening, whilst giving us a sense of 'self',' costs us all that truly deeply matters and causes us to continue to live a life of illusion, full of story and justification.  In being steadfast in our loyalty to remaining open and in our heart no matter what, there is a real sense of leaving this world and entering a most simple, quieted, unseen and magical-yet-normal world ...  It is that 'other world' that I love to read and to see in John - even when he's so far away - by tuning in to some of the live broadcasts and watching a few VODs.  Here are a few golden snippets for you from the seminar in India so far:

"When your conditioning

is activated or triggered in your self,

you, awareness,

can either relate to that conditioning

or you can continue to relate

to how you move in your heart

despite the experience of that conditioning.

This is a key point."

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"A story makes separation fair,

when it isn't ever fair.

It isn't fair to what you really are;

it isn't fair to your Being or your heart.

Have a story and you close.

As soon as you warmly no longer

need the story, you're opening."

Mmm, so good ... who else on this planet teaches us the Truth like this?  In another talk, John spoke of the gift of being what you really are in form as being "freedom in form" and the gift of being in a body:

"If you're being that, as awareness,

despite anything that you experience,

you will naturally move

not just as what you really are,

which are streams of Being,

but you'll move as those streams 

into your self, into your person

and into your life.

The gift of being in a body

overflows into your self and into your person,

filling your life.

If you have anything other than that gift

you become lost in stories.

Wherever there is a story,

there is the loss of the gift."

To fully live that gift means letting all else pass away because what you value more than anything is that open heart, the magical doorway to all that is truly real and all Beyond ... 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti