The Way Of The Heart

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The Way Of The Heart

 

There is an ice glacier hard packed and confining like a

prison around the window of vision. It is as solid as

substance. A shield of dead water. A dead sea of apathy

and inattention that nothing can melt but a gentle and

persistent pressure from within. We have to start pushing

against this inertia to get that water moving again. Once the

pack ice starts to shift a little, another hand will appear in

your very heart to pump warm awareness against that cold

wall.

 

For a lifetime that wall has been solidifying as our learned

ways of seeing, our false concepts. These our separations

from the inner light, that have been covered over by fearful

ice particles, to form structures of defense. A tissue of scars

to protect our inner child from pain. An ice barrier around

the heart of being, that can only be broken down by

awareness and surrender to the Love that is us.

 

We are caretakers of tenderness. We must endeavor to plant

within us, a new seed to grow within that walled garden of

our isolated heart-essence. First to be aware, that this

heart, is not a heart in time and distance. It is not a place.

For we are eternal consciousness, and the only place we

truly exist is in awakened Love sentience. Yet this

physicality of us, is the substance of spirit also. It is a

similitude and imprint of spiritual realities. Thus the

physical heart is conscious of the divine. More conscious

than the mind. For the mind we have come to think of as us,

is but a distorted mirror of reality. The heart, though

in-cased by false bastions of anxious doubt, and

misperception is invulnerable for it is totally vulnerable. In

its being, it is utterly pure and untouched by the shell of ice

that has formed about it.

 

The heart is a threshold. A window and doorway to that

you, that is beyond the description of words like ‘I’ and

‘You.’ It is the eye that sees itself. The ear that hears all,

and the mouth of God. There is nothing complicated about

God, about Love, about the Heart. Be simple at all times.

The head will fight you in your journey into this heart. For

the intellect is a willing tool of that ego construct that has

become your shadow. Do not struggle with the head. Pay it

only the attention it deserves, but keep ever centered upon

the heart. This is where Love abides, so abide in that. Be in

remembrance. Remember God in yourself. In the heart of

you.

 

This attention, will first begin to move and breakdown the

thick frost of our ice jail, then all that we will need to do, is

hold that awareness within us. Like a bee, keep returning

for that honey. Do not make forgetfulness a sin, just relax

and return to the center. Each time we return, the heart will

grow warmer and heavier, it will have the gravity of a star

within us. It will feel like a precious child that stirs within

our being. Return to that cradle of ourselves, and love all

that is discovered there.

 

A human, must be born of his and herself. Born again. This

was how Mary gave birth to Jesus. This is how the self gives

birth to the Christ Self. This is the pregnancy of love in all

things. A sweet becoming of God realization.

 

Soon the impulse of the divine will be rooted there in our

awareness. The sap of an energy so sweet and persistent will

begin to push away all obstructions to it. The walls will

come tumbling down, the ice will disintegrate, and the water

will flow. We will flow not in or out, but in all directions,

within a temperate sea of longing and love. This impulsion

is our divine awakening. We will have knocked upon our

door, and soon there will be no more ‘door’ to knock upon.

 

We will have arrived on the path of Love. Now there is no

more effort. No more path, but repose within the heart. I

cannot tell you more of this. For what each of you, who take

this path will discover, is your own true natures. That

nature is beyond this writers talent to describe to you in

symbols and images. The gift awaits you, and it is only for

you. I but recommend you to the One Heart of Being. To

Love.

 

 

love

 

eric

 

 

Copyright 2002. Eric Ashford.