Greatful

[Ankh]

Sometimes I "get other people's ideas in my head". So our king is dyslexic, and "greatful" things happen sometimes! j/k

This icy situation caused me great pain, because how can you celebrate life if the heart is not open? If there are guard dogs around the heart protecting you from a threatening world, how can you embrace this experience and say, "Light and dark, good and bad, pleasure and pain, I absolutely, unreservedly open myself to you, and *love* each iota of this experience! I see these outer forms, accept their rightness in my life and the divine from which they spring, and I seek the deeper truth these symbols represent with my heart open and free!" Without the heart you see things as separate parts and pieces diced up in the analysis of your mind, each thing its own thing but connected to you only through philosophy or science or utility, not through knowing its essential oneness with yourself, and *feeling* the aliveness of consciousness contained within what appears to be an outer shell of minimum interest. Without love you are unable to, in an experiential way, render the many sharp-edged boundaries transparent to the unifying divine within each seeming part.

Amen.

Thank you, Gary.

In loving Oneness,
Lana