Are You in Heaven or Hell?
Are you living your life as if you’re in heaven or hell? When we’re not in acceptance of what is, life can seem like hell. The truth is the calm, peaceful Presence of Awareness that we are is always here, just beneath the surface. This is the heaven that requires no waiting
The following story that you probably have heard before illustrates one of the ways this heaven can manifest in life if we are open to it…
A man goes to heaven and meets God at the Pearly Gates. God welcomes him and then asks, “Is there any last wish, my son, before you spend eternity in heaven?”
“Yes,” the man replies. “I’d like to see what hell is like, so I can thoroughly appreciate my good fortune.”
God says, “Fine,” snaps his fingers, and instantly they enter hell. Before them, as far as the eye can see, is a table piled high with the most wonderful delicacies anyone’s heart could desire. On both sides of the table, as far as the eye can see, are millions of unhappy people starving to death.
The man asks God, “Why are these people starving?”
God replies, “Everyone must eat from the table with 11 foot long chopsticks.”
“That’s terribly harsh,” the man replies compassionately.
God snaps his fingers and they return to heaven.
On entering heaven, the man is surprised to see an almost identical scene – a bountiful table stretching as far as the eye can see – except that everyone is happy and well fed.
He turns and asks God, “What do the people eat with here? They must have different utensils.”
“No, my son,” says God, “everyone here eats with 11 foot long chopsticks too.”
The man is confused. “I don’t understand, how is this possible?”
God replies, “In heaven, we feed each other.”
What if the collective consciousness focuses on helping each other, instead of starving each other?
Whoever wins this election is going to need the help of all of us in order to deal with the extremes that are occurring on our planet. Even if you can’t rally behind whoever wins, sending out negative energy is not helpful, it only feeds the collective consciousness with more negativity, which is what got us where we are.
Remember, to the degree we hate anyone, we hate everyone. If we feel darkness in our hearts, we tend to project and attract that into our world. We then feel like we have to fight with our world in order to accomplish positive change. The more we feel like we have to wage war for peace, the more we create the opposite in our experience.
It is critically important that we work on our own inner landscape in addition to working on the outer landscape to create lasting peace on earth. The best way to do this is to let go of fear, frustration, hate, doubt or whatever inner obstacles you may be facing personally as you strive to do good. As you let go, you will naturally uncover the peace that is at your core and you’ll find that the outer opposition melts away as well. Together we can all bring forth a new vision, a new way of being here on planet earth.
Love,
Hale