Quote:Now during the course of one’s life, it will generally occur to those who struggle through your density to question what it’s all about. “Is this really all that all that life has to offer?” And the opening of that question is the first salvo, shall we say, of a realization that there is something more to life than simple self-maintenance. One feels, for one thing, that something is called for one. That one is called to a sense of purpose that is higher. And one very often feels this sense of purpose in the responsibility one takes for those other selves that one has learned to love along the way.

To love is an activity that begins a process of opening the heart. The heart is a dimension of the being which tends to be closed off precisely by the armoring that has been developed as a means of fending off that catalyst which one feels one cannot process, and learning to deal with other selves in such a way that one is not vulnerable to their actions so as to damage that very fragile and crystalline structure which is the fledgling self.
At the point that one finds it is beginning to be possible to let down the guard, and accept that which, for all the world, seems to be unacceptable, this is the point that which one may contemplate the opening of the heart.

There are some occasions in which the heart is flung open rather precipitously by events which indeed may be seen as dramatic and even traumatic. And there are some occasions in which an eager seeker has, through arduous labor in meditation, managed to fling the heart wide open, and this can lead to imbalances of energy for the seeker when there has not been adequate preparation with regard to the stable structure of the self.

This is not to say that those experiences which can be seen as traumatic, or those experiences which may be seen a dramatic, are necessarily harmful, for it is quite usual to undergo a sense of a radical imbalance in the heart as part of the development in which the heart is opened so that further work may be done there.

The work of the heart, my friends, is very often not pretty work, for one finds there all of the deposits of hurt, all of the sorrows one has carried, all of the resistances one has built up over time as a part of the process of developing a sense of who you are in this life. One discovers that for every piece of a catalyst that one has filtered out, through the invocation of the armoring function, there is a residue left that the opening of the heart now reveals as some “thing” that must be worked through. Oh how large the supply of work there is to be done, my friends. When one first gazes upon its expanse one can be quite, quite overwhelmed.

Therefore, the first and early glimpses into that vastness which the opening of the heart offers to the gaze can lead to a sense of hopelessness, a sense of a despair even, that there is so much to do and so few resources with which to undertake the doing. We ask you, do not despair, for lifetime upon lifetime you have gazed upon these travails. The fact that you now find yourself able even to see the expanse opening up before you is already an indication that you are ready to undertake the job, so to speak.

The opening of the heart is a very simple affair. It is built upon one act of acceptance at a time. The act of acceptance takes place always in the moment. All you can do in the moment is to accept what this moment has to offer. All that you can do in the moment, is to greet the moment. And in the moment lies love. And in the moment lies the answer to the question, “How can I possibly go on?” It is very often, my friends, in the uttermost extremity of seemingly overwhelming catalyst that one is able to find the needed resource.

A little act of loving acceptance, that is the key. One act of acceptance opens a small door—and this door leads on to another, which may be opened again by acceptance. And in this way, acceptance builds upon acceptance, and little by little those afflictions which one has built up, those difficulties one has stored away, become healed. A healing heart is a heart which begins to show the ability to reach out into the world in a way that heals also that world.

We are not saying this is easy work, my friends. On the contrary, it is undoubtedly the most difficult work you will ever do. But it is precisely the work you have incarnated to do.

(11-03-2015, 05:06 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Q'uo says they are an amalgamation of the energy of all who are channeling in the room AND who may read or participate in the channeling from a different time/space. We're all Q'uo!