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Heavenletter #3997 Published on: November 4, 2011

You are growing. That means you are growing up. Your personal needs are no longer the most important thing in the world. I am not telling you that you don't matter. I am saying that you matter very much. You matter so much to the Universe and to Me that now you let go of holding onto your personal needs.

This often means that you keep quiet. It is not so urgent any longer that you express yourself, or, rather, it is imperative that you express yourself in new ways. Sometimes you have to hold your tongue in the interests of all concerned. Understand that I am not diminishing your role. I am telling you that you have a bigger role to fulfill.

When I spoke to the Great Spiritual Ones in the world, they did not say: "But, God...." They did not say, "But, God, I don't want to leave my personality behind. I want to settle my irritations with certain people and certain situations. I want to express myself and my personal needs. I want to settle everything."

If the Great Ones had spoken so, I would have said to them:

"Walk away now. Walk away now from your need to have anything settled the way you believe it has to be. From your limited view, you are right, yet you are leaving your small self behind now, and you are going beyond. Small self is selfishness. You think you have certain needs that have to be responded to, acknowledged, revered. Why, you have bigger fish to fry. You have greater needs than your own to take care of. You have peace to give. You have a bigger pond to live in now. The pond you are meant for is the Whole Universe.

"It is not that you are here to concede. You are here now to stride across the horizon of the past and your attachment to it. You are to take a leap and come with Me as My right hand and bring out Greaterness in everyone. No longer do these unmet needs of yours matter."

I would say to you now the same.

Do you remember the Hobbit who did not want to leave his cozy Hobbit house and his breakfasts and his creature comforts? But what happened is that an X was put on his door. He was chosen to go on an adventure. Despite his personal requirement and reluctance, he went on the adventure. This is how he became a hero, not by staying home and living off the land.  He did not stay at home. He left the familiar and entered the Unknown.

We could say that he left his small territory for a far greater one.

This does not have to mean that you must travel, although it may. What you have to leave behind you is the idea that your personal rightness and your personal satisfaction and your personal ego, have to come before the Wholeness of the Big Picture. Let Me remind you again that this step forward is not forced upon you. It is a recognition that you come to. It is your graduation from littleness. You give up your ego and choose greater than yourself. What you are doing is losing your specialness to yourself. This is how you become great.

It may seem contradictory to you that you grow greater by letting go of your singular importance. What We are talking about here now is not a new concept to you. It is inevitable. In order to find yourself, you must lose yourself. Your little self, that is.

Heavenletter #991 Published on: July 9, 2003

What if everything you have done in your life is really right and not at all what you have thought? What if, despite whatever you might think, you played your hand well? What if, impossible as it may seem, you have no cause for regret for deeds done or undone? What if your mistake was thinking mistakes exist? In that case, you have been mistaken!

The concept of mistake has a short-ranged focus. You see A and then you see B, and that is as far as you go. You lost the spelling bee because you misspelled a word, but what if it were right that you misspelled it? All you can know now is how the word is spelled. You cannot know the significance of the misspelling; therefore, you cannot know that you were wrong to misspell it. How do you know that the slip of a tongue was a slip?

You hammered your thumb. How clumsy. Yet, what if that were, unbelievably, a great finesse? What if, because you hit your thumb, events in the world and your life swung into place? What if hammering your thumb heralded something wonderful, perhaps in the future, perhaps in the past, or how about right now?

You will never know, but perhaps you can imagine it.

You lost your wallet, or your wallet was stolen. How do you know that was a dreadful event? Dreadful is only a conclusion you draw. What interlude does the loss of your wallet perhaps create, unseen and unheard by you, but played nevertheless? Of course, you will never figure it out.

What if foolish is not foolish?

What if loss is not loss?

What if victory is no more victory than loss is loss?

Not only are you a critic of life in general, and yours in particular, you have also made yourself judge. It isn't only people that you judge. All day you sort through your life, you sift it. You are judging right and left. Whenever you come to conclusions, you have wrapped up a segment of your life and filed it away. You can be sure you have overlooked something.

Whatever has happened to date is erased. That's what clean slate means. What you are erasing is your attachment. You have been very attached to the concept of error. Error is an either or thing. To your mind, you erred or you did not err.

What if error and non-error are both possible at the same time? Then one cancels the other, and neither error nor correctness exist, if they ever did. In truth, error and non-error cannot coexist because error is a concept like any other.

So long as you think in terms of success or failure, you are missing the boat.

So long as you think of right or wrong, good or bad, you keep yourself from sailing.

The coexistence of opposites does not exist. Or, they exist ephemerally so long as you say so.

Can there be loveliness, you ask, without unloveliness? I say there can.

What if the one adjective in the world was lovely? Or magnificent? What would you make of things then?

What if the life that goes along beside you has no influence at all upon your state of being.

That is, of course, absolutely true, but you have not yet perceived that. How you feel, what you think, are not part of your being. Being is being regardless of anything else. How you feel, what you think, do affect your ego, however. That is all that can be affected. What is your ego but your picture of yourself? Draw another.

What if you could utter no word but Yes?

Start saying it. Yes is a lovely filler.

Today, in your heart, say Yes to everything. Then you will be very close to Truth.

Heavenletter #886 Published on: March 23, 2003

My nature is happiness. I am exquisitely happy, and I am exquisitely happy with you. This is hard for you to understand because you are not always so happy with yourself. Certainly not always radiantly happy. You learned dissatisfaction. You did not learn it from Me.

Learning from Me, you will see the universe as a beautiful rolling out of color, and you will be delighted with all of the rippling colors. You will see that the world is a diamond extolling its blessings to you, and the different colors are merely the same light refracted from different angles. You will see a magnificent display of Oneness. You will see.

How many expressions of My light can there be? Infinite are the expressions of My light, for My light is infinite.

My light is inescapable, for you are a carrier of it.

There is nothing in the universe but My light.

It never turns off. It is never dimmed.

Your eyes and heart have to open. That's all.

Darkness is an illusion. It must be. If all is light, light is all there is.

Note the rising sun. It follows its course. At dusk it dips behind the curve of the earth called horizon. The light has not really gone anywhere. It is covered, that's all.

It was a significant moment of evolution when mankind realized that the sun always shines. Like a beautiful woman, the earth turns and looks at itself in a mirror from many sides. The mirror is light, and the beautiful woman and the beautiful earth are merely reflections of light, turned this way and that, seen from many angles in the mirror of My light. My light ever shines. Sometimes My light is forgotten, and attention is given to only those things which are displayed in My light.

Everyone loves My light. Mirrors of light, pools of light. Yet often they think what they see in the mirror is all there is to see.

Narcissus fell in love with his reflection. He believed the edges of himself and forgot the pool. He looked at an imagined outline, and forgot the light that created the reflection. The delineations within the light were drifting ripples. Narcissus fell in love with illusion. As have you.

Fall in love with light instead.

Narcissus did not love himself. He loved a picture of himself. He loved his looks. He loved other than himself. He loved something he saw with his eyes. He saw something at the surface of the pool, and immersed himself in that. But how deep is the surface of the pool? It is not deep at all.

But you are deep.

Narcissus fell in love with a portrait. He stopped there.

He did not know who he was, therefore, he fell in love with a mere image.

It has been said that you are made in My image. That means you are made in My light. You are My light. You are not a sketch of it. You are it.

Narcissus loved a photograph of himself, and that was the birth of ego. Narcissus did not know what he saw in the pool of light. He thought the reflection was someone else. He thought he saw another. He thought there was another.

But there is more truth to the story of Narcissus. And it is this: There is no one on earth or water to love but yourself. If only you would know who you are.

To know who you are, first you have to know what you are made of. You are made of My light. There is nothing else for you to be made of. You are light. You are the light of God.

Heavenletter #887 Published on: March 24, 2003

Sometimes I am the furthest thought from your mind. Yet I am beyond your thought. I am irrespective of it. I may be out of your thought, your eyesight, your hearing, your conscious awareness and all, but I am never out of your sphere. That is, you are never out of Mine.

We exist, and We can say We live in the same life. But it is a different movie I see from the one you believe you are watching. We go to the same theatre, but We see two different movies. Seated side by side, with one screen before Us, We see different pictures.

We engage in the same sport, and yet the name is different. I play in Love always. You do too but you think you play Fight and Withdraw and other things like that.

What you consider Real Life is not Real Life at all. It is not even an imitation. It is far-flung. You think your feet are planted firmly on ground when you swing your bat, but you have never been more groundless.

All the troubles in life that you swing at are flights of fancy. You imagine a reality that is not true. It is a façade. It is a stage prop that a little finger of truth can knock down. But you hold dear to the cardboard set, and run away from, or mock, or refuse to look at the sterling gold that is everywhere. I will not say the gold surrounds you because that would imply another wall, but the gold is the essence of you and of life everywhere always.

How often I am considered responsible for the circumstances in the lives of men! I am responsible for your great imagination, for I gave that to you along with all else that is unlimited, but I am not responsible for your flights of fancy which are limits you chose to set upon yourself and others. All limits are imaginary. I don't set any limits.

You might say that your Human body is a limit. Of course, the physical can go only so far. The Human body is one of those stage props you have sold yourself on as the undeniable truth of you, when it is not truth at all. That which you can touch, see, hear, is not true. Tastes are not true. Tastes are just tastes. Everything in the physical is just a taste of the truth that is. Tastes are echoes of Reality.

It is like this: You push a door open. You see sights within the border of a room. And then there is another door. You open it. You stand at different thresholds and beyond each is yet another. The threshold — the opening of it — is called Infinity.

And yet you have held the view you have seen from the first door as the extent of all that is. You accepted a farthing for a tuppence.

You think there is an entrance fee to the other rooms, but entry is free. All it takes is your walking up and opening the imaginary doors that separate one supposed room from another.

You stand in a roomless mansion.

You stand in a mansionless mansion because it has no walls.

You stand in a universe with no borders, or it could not be universe.

Yet you think you live in a box, and you make that box as cozy as you can. You shore it up. You pad it. You decorate it. You move around in it and add things to it. And you think this tiny box is the universe, and you think that everyone else lives in a boxed-in world like yours too.

When the walls of your box go down, nothing is destroyed. The walls did not exist. All you ever had to do was walk right through them and begin to see with greater vision and less imagination.

Heavenletter #1239 Published on: March 31, 2004

When you feel the need to escape from your daily life, it is your attachments you try to escape from. Perhaps you are attached to problems. If they weigh heavily on you, you most certainly are attached to them. You don't know what you would do without them. You cannot even imagine your life without them, or the world without them. And all the while, it is your ideas and the conclusions you draw that weigh you down. You are sure problems exist more than I do.

Certainly, you draw boundaries around what you find difficult and call that clear thinking. If your thinking were really clear, your mind would dwell in a different field. It wouldn't run off with heavy weights tied to its ankles. Your mind wouldn't bog itself down in mired thinking. Your mind would break out and enter a vaster arena.

What are problems and obligations but ideas? What are rules but ideas, yours or someone else's? What are ideas but prolonged thoughts? You feel burdened because you have the idea you are burdened. How powerful are your ideas! Fortunately, you can change your ideas. You can grasp Truth instead.

Your ideas of space and time weigh you down. That must be so because time and space are no more than ideas you have fastened on to. And so you would wish to escape from the hold they have on you, even though it is you who holds on to them. You hold on to the idea that time and space exist and that you are hurtled into a vortex of time and space moving too fast, pulling you along faster than you can go, as if time and space are gods. In your terms, at most, they are mortal gods. At the least, they are mass imagination, fictive thoughts framed and put on display. The truth is that time and space are nonexistent, and yet you rely on them. You revolve your life on them.

Certainly, time and space are very real to you. You spin in them. You run to keep up with illusory time, and you settle deep into space to claim it as your own. Time you race, and space you stay still in and dig trenches to hole yourself in. You could somewhat reverse that, and stay still in time and race space.

When you no longer hold on to compartments of space, you would stand at the top of the world. You would own the Universe, so to speak, for in letting go of space you recognize that there is nothing to own but your own impenetrable Self. Surely you must know that you exist in greater dimensions than the walls you seemingly build around you. What do you think doors close behind them or windows open to?

You live in a houseless world. You are citizens far beyond the air and seas. There are heights and depths you have not plumbed. Without time and space, everything is endless. That is eternity. That is infinity. You live eternally in infinity.

In what container can love be put?

For the sake of convenience, We say love is contained in your heart. But the very point is that love cannot be contained. You know it cannot be boxed. And yet, you seem to think that you, who are Love Itself, can be contained. There are no perimeters to love. They are no perimeters to you. Neither the ocean nor the mountains nor the blue skies are greater than you. There is nothing that can confine you but your thoughts. Abandon old ones. Pick out greater new ones. Pick out ones more worthy of you. Limitless thought exists. Beyond thought exists. There is an end to imagined boundedness. The string of bounded thought runs out.

You are at the edge of an imagined cliff from which you can leap into a great horizon where time and space end, even though they never were in the first place.

Heavenletter #3050 Published on: April 1, 2009

It can be said that nature is the healer. It is indeed natural to heal. It is indeed natural to have no need to heal. We can say that you have a self-cleaning physiology. As you live and move in the world, nature does not have to allow occlusions to the smooth flow of health.

One way to look at it is that happiness is health. It is not an absolute that health is a by-product of happiness, yet it is a good way to look at it, for it makes your securing happiness incumbent upon you.

Happiness is an interesting word. It would imply hap or happenstance or luck, yet happiness is not a roll of the dice, beloveds. It is how you meet life. It is your thoughts. It is incumbent upon you to recognize your own happiness which lies within you. Certainly, the relative world gives you a boost now and then, here and there, and yet your true state is happiness or joy or equanimity or whatever you want to call it. It is absence of qualm. It is a way of greeting life however it shows up.

Happiness is not denial, beloveds. Anything less than happiness is denial. It is the denial of happiness and your natural state of existence.

If happiness seems like too strong a word to go along with daily life, then substitute the word peace. Peace is the pathway to health. Peace has a special subtle meaning. It is quieter than happiness. Yet peace is a huge reverberation. It is the still waters. It is awareness of what is in every cell of your body. Let your cells have peace.

Disturbance is perhaps the opposite of peace. Certainly war is opposed to peace. When individuals live in peace within themselves, what eruption of war in the world can possibly occur?

Do not think that war belongs only to the combatant countries and the people there. Compare the Earth to a human body. If a pimple arises on the chin, you do not blame the chin. You do not blame the chin nor the skin. The pimple is a result of the whole organism. It is the same with war.

When there is battle anywhere, look to yourself, beloveds.

You can be the harbinger of war, and you can be the preventer and alleviator of war. Make peace with yourself, beloveds. Live in peace. So long as there is war anywhere in the world, you are not above it.

War is a symptom, and symptoms signal that attention is needed. Attend to all hearts, and there will be no war.

Enough people in peace even 5,000 miles away from the front lines, and the war will be over. From miles away, the condition of war will be healed. Enough individuals in peace, and no one will want war. Someone must want war in order to have it.

Let Us say that another word for peace could be egolessness. When there is peace, ego doesn't reign. When there is friction, ego reigns. Without ego, war is unwarranted, and peace is beheld.

Look to your own home, beloveds. Be the love that heals all wounds. Be the peace you seek. Be the love you are.

Heavenletter #3995 Published on: November 2, 2011

Today is your birthday. Every single day you are born anew. You do not begin today where you left off yesterday. A good night's sleep is not only sleep. You may work hard during sleep. In any case, the person who goes to bed last night is not the same person who gets up this morning. At every instant, there is change, and you change. The beautiful thing is that you can be as you want to be. You can be happy. The only thing is that what you have thought will bring you happiness may not bring you happiness at all.

There are no closed deals in life. Life marches on and takes you with it. The greater gains you make, the greater responsibility comes along. You make conditional agreements with life. You ask life to give you something you want, and promise you will be happy, and then when you get it, you are already moving on to something else. Getting what you want does not necessarily bring you happiness.

This is a lesson that may not have quite gotten through to you. Life is not about getting. When you are in the getting mode, your attention is on yourself. In a giving mode, your attention is out of yourself. Giving expands. Getting contracts. When you talk about giving, your hands gesture away from yourself. When you talk about getting, your hands beckon toward you. Your hands tell a story.  Unless you are giving out, you are pulling in. Hold your hands in front of you palms up, and you are offering. Close your hands, and you are taking back the offer, bringing it closer to you.

You think it could only be wonderful to receive. Imagine fame. Imagine a billion dollars. Imagine adoration all over the place. You would be as satisfied or dissatisfied as you have been without fame, money, adoration. After a change in your situation, you are still left with yourself. What you are given is not the making of you. What you give is the making of you.

If you sincerely wish to be happy, then find a way to give. Find your way. The more you create happiness for others, the more you create happiness for yourself. You will have somersaults of joy.

We are talking of true gestures from your heart, not just motions of giving. If you give and feel resentful afterwards because you did not gain applause, you are giving with one hand and taking back with the other.

If you want to stir your heart with happiness, add happiness to someone else's life. The way as you pour salt on your food to season it, pour happiness on someone's heart, and your own heart is seasoned.

Learn new ways of giving. A little giving goes a long way. A little courtesy. Even a pinch of love changes the complexion of everyone's life. A ray of light is light.

Unless you are giving, you are neglecting. Giving thought to another is good. Giving a glance at someone's face is good. Greeting someone is good. Listening to someone is good. Responding to someone is good. Take time to attend to someone. Getting some place on time is not more important than giving attention to the person before you now. Giving attention to another for no other purpose than to add a little light to their life is serving the Universe. There are no little acts. Everything you do or say or give matters a lot. It matters to you, the so-called others, and it matters to Me. I am the Recipient of all your words and your time and your sweetness, and I thank you.

Heavenletter #2956 Published on: December 28, 2008

If every belonging of yours were taken away today, nothing would have changed. Oh, yes, you would bereave the loss of this trinket or this rug or this house, yet without the trinkets and house and household goods, you would be as you always have been. Beloveds, you stand in the Universe. Life is you and I. And all the material in between has nothing to do with Us. I understand that you think it does. I understand that you feel favored when a house is built for you and unfavored when the house is taken away. And yet, beloveds, the material is immaterial to Us. When all is said and done, what We have is Oneness, and Oneness is not dependent upon the lay of the land.

Whatever can be taken away from you, as harsh as this may seem, is nothing at all. It never was yours anyway. You occupied a house. You wore a bracelet. You walked on a rug or you rolled it up or you slept on it. All the things in the world are conveniences. You have seen them as necessities. I understand this, and yet what matters, what really matters, is the love We share. This love is the basis of everything. What is the physical the basis of?

You already know that houses without love are not much. Yes, houses protect you from the elements. They are very nice things to have, but they are not everything. In fact, they are nothing but wood, plaster, a place to occupy for only a time, in any case.

I want you to have your abode. I also don't want you dependent upon any physical thing. When you are overwhelmingly dependent upon physical things, you contract yourself. I draw a much larger circle around you, a circle that encompasses Us with no walls. Actually, it is not a circle I draw around you. It is not a circle at all. It is not an enclosure. It is Infinity.

And all the enclosures, such as houses, that you feel comfortable with are mere sketches you have drawn with invisible ink, or have been drawn for you, and you have paid for with bits and pieces of your freedom.

The physical that you are surrounded with is irrelevant to the substance of you. Yes, the physical is to be enjoyed and yet not to be dependent upon.

Life on Earth is a field of change. Life on Earth is a rolling stone. When all is said and done, life on Earth gathers no moss. It can only be illusion that you accumulate. You already have enough.

Prepare yourself right now for the self-sufficiency of love. You can walk away from belongings lickety-split, but you cannot walk away from love, for love is what you are and are made of. You are your own love, and your love is dependent upon nothing but you. Love is your inner core. Love is the heart of you, and love is what matters, and it matters indelibly. It is what matters. Love is not a prop. Props are not necessary. Love is.

When you can accept that you are love, and that love is not dependent upon incidentals, then you are free of gravity. In love you soar. What do you think Heaven is? It is where love is. And where love is, peace reigns. This is brotherhood.

Never mind even about gaining love. Mind about giving it. Give love lightly, not heavily. Just give it because it is Ours to give, and it is My desire that love be your milieu, for, beloveds, love is all, and your stirring love is what matters, and your stirring love is what the world is dependent on. Love is the ace, and love beats anything.

Heavenletter #2955 Published on: December 27, 2008

Little children play. They enjoy. Joy is one of the great qualities of little children. In their joy, how much joy they give to you! While they are very very young, they develop a sense of humor. Is it for the baby or for you that you play peek-a-boo? Every child's laugh is like a bell ringing in Heaven.

Think of the world filled with joy and laughter rather than sorrow and tears. Sorrow and tears aren't so bad either. They are real, and joy and laughter are real too, yet why not trade in tears for laughter? What would you be losing but seriousness? What is the virtue in being so serious? When did being somber rate more highly than joy? Is there more respect given for tears than for laughter? Who thought that one up?

When you think of it, why is sorrow more celebrated than joy? How odd. How funny right there. To think that sorrow carries greater weight than laughter! This is something to laugh about. Think of it! Sorrow is paraded in public, and laughter takes place muffled. "Don't be silly!" the world says.

You really already knew that the world had many things backward, yet you may have thought it would be impolite of you to laugh at any of the behavior the world touts. The world tends to frown on laughter and smile upon sorrow. The world even ennobles sorrow and gives it trappings. This must be a classic case of the Emperor's New Clothes.

In all seriousness, I have to ask why in God's Name would anyone look upon sorrow with more favor than they look upon joy? Why would anyone keep laughter hidden when laughter could ring the bells of joy all over the world? There must be some kind of joke here!

Perhaps the world needs schools of laughter. As it is now, in most classrooms, if someone laughs, he gets in trouble. Why not reserve frowns for those who are not laughing, or at least not smiling.

What is there that cannot give you delight? Must botany and Einstein's relativity be so serious? Must anything be so serious? Why not have Sense of Humor in the curriculum? The law of gravity was not meant to apply to the expression on your face.

Instead of advice that says, "Study hard," why not have advice that says, "Laugh hard." Advise yourself.

Instead of signs on buses that say, "Buy this, not that," have signs that say, "Buy laughter, not sorrow."

Instead of having a beautiful cigarette girl who walks around as in an old movie and says, "Cigarettes! Cigarettes for sale!" have a beautiful girl with a great smile walk around saying, "Laughter! Free laughter today! Laughter on the house! Have some. Have more. Take all you want!"

Laughter belongs to the innocence of the little child. Laughter is spontaneous. A child does not have to be taught how to laugh. He doesn't have to learn it on his own either. A child naturally peals with laughter, while on the other hand, sorrow has to be taught and it has to be learned. A child's laughter is locked down, and he is taught there are solemn occasions. Is this not so? Has not the world favored straight faces?

Why must only flags be raised high? Why cannot laughter be raised high too? Why cannot joy and laughter be considered honorable, more honorable than the pomp and circumstance of sorrow? Are not peals of laughter better than the sobs of sorrow? Why give comfort to those in the throes of sorrow and not put your arm around those in the throes of laughter?

Let's get the world's priorities right. From this day forth, downplay sorrow and exonerate joy.

Heavenletter #3993 Published on: October 31, 2011

You are Don Quixote who duels with windmills. When you battle, odds are that you are battling with yourself. You conceive a battle that you are fighting. You may have desired a battle. You were ready for a fight, and so you found an object.

Battles are manmade. They are not of My making. I have other things to do, like to love and love more and love again and again until you get My love into your head. Your heart is not lacking My love. Your heart is filled with My love, and yet your mind finds ways to contradict the love in your heart. The mind may look for ways. Foolish mind. Foolish ego mind.

It may be that you love a good fight. You feel victorious. Even when you lose, you may feel victorious because your opponent is such a bad guy and you are so virtuous. You may be bruised, and you may sniffle, yet you came out superior. Your ego cheers you. 

Feel virtuous without a battle. Be virtuous. When you cannot love the one you see as an opponent, then love someone else. Give yourself over to love. Love someone somewhere. Never be a derelict of love. Let your anger go. There is not advantage to anger.

True, anger lets you know that you are alive. Be creative instead, and you will know that you are alive.

I have to ask you, what purpose does anger serve? Is it really wonderful to be all riled up? Does it take talent to be angry? What is so wonderful about your justifying anger? Be not an anger-monger. If you must justify something, justify love. Be a gardener of love. Plant seeds of love rather than seeds of anger. Plant flowers of love and let go of the armament of anger.

Anger zaps your energy. It may fire you up for a time, but then you are left with heartburn. Ashes of anger do a number on you. Anger simply isn't good for you. It isn't good for anyone. It is self-mutilation. You are responsible for your anger. It is your anger. Anger is a waste of your time. It is more worthwhile for you to twiddle your thumbs than to be angry.

Life in the world is too short to spend on anger. Anger will deplete you every time. Even when you think you have won, you have lost energy. You have thrown yourself away on anger. Anger short-changes you. There are no exceptions to this.

Anger is not honorable. It is dishonorable. No matter how righteous your anger may be, it is self-righteous. Besides, all wars are civil wars. You can only be fighting with your brother. All are your brother or your sister. Don't you have something better you can be than angry? Don't you have something better to do?

Anger is kicking your foot against a wall and wounding yourself. Ultimately, anger is directed to yourself. You are not even fighting windmills. You are fighting an image in the mirror. All opponents simply represent you. They are you.

There is no need for you to come out on top. It is meaningless. You see good guys and bad guys. You do not know what another's life is and what their perception of the world is. I make no excuses for anyone, and I make no excuses for you.

Peace be with you, not anger. Peace be with you. Peace be with you.

The peace of God is within you. You can find it. You can find it now. Find it. Make peace now.

Heavenletter #3994 Published on: November 1, 2011

Gratitude is great. Gratitude is a technique. Press that gratitude button in your heart often, and see what happens. The more gratitude you have, the more you will have to be grateful for. You will have great gratefulness. You will be attracting it. Your thoughts are like magnets. Whatever you are thinking about, you will attract more of the quality of your thoughts. Thoughts are a dime a dozen. For the same money, you can have thoughts that benefit you rather than thoughts that pull you down.

So, when you have a day when you are down in the dumps, turn your attention on what you are grateful for, and you will no longer be down in the dumps. No matter what solid reason you have to feel down, gratitude will lift you up. Gratitude keeps you open-ended. Feeling down stops you right there. If you want to feel up, remember all that which you are grateful for, and then think of more.

Your attitude is a compilation of your thoughts. Switch your thoughts, and your attitude is switched.

Good news elevates you. Bad news depresses you. Sometimes your thoughts are based on what comes in on you, and, yet, you are the owner of your thoughts. You admit them to your mind, cuddle with them, or you boot them out. Make up your mind, beloveds. You are the chooser of your thoughts. Of course, you would choose uplifting thoughts rather than debilitating ones. Of course, you would, and, yet, sometimes you find yourself hammering the debilitating thoughts.

Tell me how you feel, and I can tell you the thoughts you have echoing in your mind. You can tell yourself. When you are in a pickle, and you want to be out of the pickle, think unpickled thoughts.

When you pick flowers, you choose the flowers you will pick. And if a field does not have the flowers you want, you go to another field. Do the same with your thoughts. Which flowers do you want to put into the vase of your mind? You have your pick. In the case of your thoughts, be fussy.

Be grateful that you are alive. You could have a million reasons why you are not glad to be alive. Now find five reasons why you are grateful. Do not be an ingrate. Thank God for your life. Ungratefulness is selfishness. Gratefulness is generous in its humility. No matter what your circumstances, find the light within and you will be lit. Keep your light on.

Keep your light on so that you are bright and I can spot you anywhere. Keep your light on so you light up the world for others. Anyone can be morose. There's nothing hard about that. By the same token, anyone can be bright. Why would you choose to be morose when you can choose to be bright? Never mind the reasons. The reasons, no matter how evident they are, are, nevertheless, excuses. I will tell you frankly that there is no excuse for you to talk yourself into being less than you are.

You are a powerful human being. You have the power to pull yourself down, and you have the power to pull yourself up. You have the power to drink a cup of ambrosia, and you have the power to drink a cup of bitterness. Bitterness is poison. Which do you choose to fill the world up with? Ambrosia or bitterness? Ambrosia or sourness? It's your call.

Draw a breath. Ease your heart. Everything is working out just fine. Whatever you may think about it, everything is on schedule. Everyone in the orchestra has taken his place, and when the maestro raises his baton, the musicians will play and the music begin.

As a musician in life, you are part of the concert. Rehearsed or not, there is a concert. The woodwinds come in to melt your heart. The violins vibrate. A diva sings. The pianist leans forward. You come in on cue. Even if you are quarter past the hour or quarter before, you are on cue. There is no late nor early.

The song that is played is the song that is played. Who is to say that there should have been another song, or that it should have been played at a different hour?

Someone is listening to the music, and their heart is thrilled.

The drums roll. Between the beats, great thunder is heard as well.

The conductor’s baton is raised. It hovers there. Your heart is expectant of the great moment. The great moment comes. You are part of it, yet you cannot make the clock strike. Rain falls when it falls. It may come at your bidding, or maybe it was coming anyway, or it waits until another day.

You steer your car toward a destination, but who is to say when you will reach your destination? There could be a traffic jam or a detour, or you have to stop for gas and wait in line. You arrive when you arrive, and that is the moment of your arrival.

Your life is a balance between patience and impatience, though neither is necessary. You have made a schedule, and when you are behind or ahead or on time, you endow the moment with patience or impatience. You cannot rush the tides, beloveds. Life is always on time.

A young child wants to grow fast, but he grows as he grows. And when the child has lived many years, he cannot stem the tides either. Even the imperfect has its perfection. The milk spilled is also an occasion. Who is to say the milk was not to spill? Who can say that it was imperative that it not spill? Who is it who can say that this moment of timelessness is not perfect as it is, spilled milk or not?

You are in a hurry. Manmade life has deadlines, and you say it is a detriment to you when they are not filled. You want to take time by the shoulders and shake it, but you cannot get your hands around time. Whatever you may want, the sands of time will run their course. They are not horses you can whip to go faster. If the pace of life will not change according to your wish, perhaps you have to change your pace.

Because of arbitrary time, matters are considered urgent. Urgent is an arbitrary label you have designed, cut out, and pasted on. “Urgent” says your label. “Late” says your label, or “Early” says your label. Make a new label that says “On Time.”

Beloveds, what are you to do when the train is late? Pace back and forth? Or take a walk to the park while you are waiting? No point in letting sense of urgency spoil a train ride. Sense of urgency has spoiled many a train ride.

There is no waiting, beloveds. There is just meeting. Meet what arrives when it arrives, and welcome it. Do not say, “You’re late.” Say: “Welcome, you’re just on time. You have arrived at the best possible moment, and I just got here myself.”

Be kind. Talk kindly. Lower your voice. Have the voice of an angel. Let beautiful notes issue from your throat today. No harshness. No impatience. Be an angel of mercy. At least, do not be a harridan.

It is not so much words you have to call back. It is the tone. The tone of your voice has a language of its own. You are sending out a call to the universe. It is the echo of your voice that is attended to.

Let your voice sound a bell, not a clang. Let your voice be sweet. Let your voice be a messenger from a realm where peace lies. You are not a crow. Be a nightingale. If someone else must be a crow, let them. Be concerned with the conduct of your own voice, beloveds.

Remind yourself that you visit Earth on My behalf, and thus be gentle. No one can withstand your ill humor. The universe cannot.

Today the timbre of your voice will elevate the hearts of all far and near. Today your voice will signal the level of harmony that you wish to attract. What you say today and how you say it is important. Open up your heart once and for all, and let everyone in. You are to welcome other hearts into yours. As with a famine, you must share your rice. You would let no one be hungry.

There is a famine of the heart going on, and you must fill hearts. Let no heart wander alone. Let no hands block ears because your voice is too rough or too loud. Culture your voice as well as your heart.

Beloveds, there is an epidemic of hurt and hastiness in the world. You have the cure. Please use it. Soften your voice today. Let no cross word pass your lips.

Start with yourself. Be benign to yourself. No self-lectures. Just ease. Melt in My love. When you know you are loved, can you be cross? If you are cross, then your fault is in not knowing that you are loved. When you know you are loved, then you can be love. You can be it today. You can be a sentinel of love today. Even without words, you can be. Come from that place where love is, and only love is.

It is not for you to belie love. You are not to prove it out of existence. You are to herald it. You are to speak for love, stand up for it, take care of it. It is a beautiful jewel set before you to hold up high where everyone may see it and hear it and know it is for them.

Your heart calls out for love. Answer that cry for someone else. Be a diviner of love. In so doing, you will remove shadows that have fallen on other hearts. Be a remover of shadows. Take away hurt from the world. Lay a layer of love upon the world. Cover it with a blanket the way a mother covers her sleeping child.

The world is asleep, beloveds. Wake it with a gentle voice. Let your voice be a flute of love. See the notes of your voice display themselves across the universe. See the world quiver in joy at the sound of your voice across the horizon. Your voice is so pleasant, the sun will follow it. You are setting a trail of love that your voice sets off. Hear the loveliness now. I have spoken.

In saying Yes to the universe, you are saying Yes to yourself. In saying No to the universe, you are saying No to yourself, cutting off a piece of the universe and your own heart. Beloveds, do not clamp your life. Open it.

Do not play percentages nor odds. Play in the game of life. Invest in it. Don’t hold back.

Never mind about success or not success. Achievement is irrelevant. Choosing to follow the stream of your heart is relevant. Bet on life, beloveds. You have nothing to lose. To not play is to keep yourself on the bench. I beckon you to come out on the field and play life, else you default.

No more excuses about why you have to hold back. Never mind about all the reasons under the sun why not to engage. Never mind about reasons altogether.

Do not say you don’t have the energy. If you didn’t keep wearing yourself out with denying your heart, you would have great energy.

Your heart is your child. You cannot always say No to your child. If you do, you teach your child hopelessness. Give your beating heart some say. Let it surge ahead. Your watchful mind thinks it is practical, thinks it is safe in saying No. Yes is safe, beloveds. Anyway, safety and success are not the issue. Moving in life is the issue.

Climb to a mountaintop in your mind, and proclaim Yes from the mountaintop. Yodel Yes throughout the universe. It will be heard. The more you say Yes to the universe, the more it will say Yes to you. Hear the echo, beloveds. That is your own voice coming back to you.

You are the claimant of your own life. It is not all to be left to chance. It is not all about picking up what is left over from a game already played. This is your game, beloveds. It is, as is said, the only game in town.

Have you been waiting for life to begin? Have you been waiting for the meal to be served to you to perfection before you will take a bite? You have waited long enough. You have most assuredly waited long enough. Beloveds, you don’t even know what you are waiting for. What traffic light are you stopped at? Take your foot off the brake. There is no emergency. There are no sirens. So why do you pull over to the side of the road? What respite do you seek?

There are rest areas. But first you have to get to them. Be not a wallflower in life. Do not wait to be chosen. Choose yourself. I chose you. You seem to be waiting until you are fully cooked. You haven’t even turned the stove on yet.

Today serve yourself life raw.

Light your own fires under life.

Add some Tabasco sauce. Cut some onions. Dig in.

Make a stir-fry of life today. Don’t wait for the petit-fours or fancy hors d’oeuvres.

Do not make your bed perfectly. Get up out of it. Throw the covers back. Leap into life.

This is the ocean of life before you. Don’t just dip a toe in. Dive in. Ready or not, dive in.

Is the water cold? Wonderful. You will warm it up then. The waters aren’t clear today? Wonderful. Clear them.

Beloveds, there are no deterrents to living life. Throw those deterrents out the window. First open the window, and then throw them out.

Come, enter life. Do not sit it out. Engage. Engage. I am here holding out My hand. Reach, beloveds, reach. Life is ready to meet you, and I am not a fingertip away. Arise, beloveds, arise.

When you think something is wonderful or when you think something is awful, both are judgments. Praise is no less a judgment than scorn. When judgments are set aside, then life is not stopped and started. Then life flows.

If a river flows by your house, what is the debate? If someone wants to drink from the river and you do not, have you become the marshal of the river to persuade or dissuade another? You are simply someone by the banks, as they are. They have their right to choose, as do you. Your right, however, does not supersede theirs.

When you see life as a question of right or wrong, you make yourself a dispenser or withholder of life.

Beloveds, how many times have you changed your mind? How many times have you been sure one path was the right one, only to be sure later that another one was better? If you can be mistaken, is it possible that another may not be? Is it possible that it doesn’t matter what you think? Is it possible that you were not set to be a sentry of the world? Is it possible that it is not for you to regulate the flow of the river?

Every adult has the right to take his own steps regardless of what you think . If a person steps upon a step, it is then his step. Even if you see the step as loose, it is nevertheless another’s right to use it.

When you do less judging, there will be less for you to judge.

By what authority do you feel you must warn another?

No one has to think the way you do. They are entitled to their own thoughts, and their own likes and dislikes. It is not for you to talk anyone into anything nor to talk them out of something. The world is not your jurisdiction, beloveds.

With matters of the mind and heart, you will not be heard, or, if you are heard, you will be heard askance. It is not for you to interfere with what someone wants to study, for example. You have your preferences, and they have theirs. The most you can have is an opinion. When were your opinions worth their weight in gold?

Your tastes change. Today something is the best, and tomorrow it is not. It has been replaced. In these matters, look to your own life, beloved, and leave others to theirs. Live your life, and allow others to live theirs. Save your breath, beloveds.

If there is someone’s thoughts you want to change, change your own. That is your right and privilege. Chances of changing someone else’s thinking are slim. Anyway, do not attempt to alter the course of another’s life.

What someone else chooses is his business. He does not have to have your beliefs. He does not have to have anything of yours. You would steal his opinion from him. True, you would wish to leave something in its place, but that does not absolve you from blatantly entering his house and trying to take something away in his presence. Let others live their lives without your permission. Enter your own house, beloveds, and move things around any way you want.