Eternal Life And You

For centuries, spiritual precepts have pointed us to the heart and soul as the
source of wisdom, truth, peace, and eternal life. We call it the heart and
soul because these deeper realities are felt most strongly in the region of the
physical heart.
But, the spiritual heart and soul isn't limited to a location in your body. The
heart and soul is the totality of your connection with the crucial qualities
and greater dimensions of your true nature as limitless existence. Any full
exploration of the bigger truth of your existence must include a discovery of
the capabilities and qualities of this tender, loving, and wise aspect of your
true nature is a pointing beyond the experience of the Heart and its
wisdom, peace, and love to the possibility of acknowledging these essential
qualities as who and what you are.
The heart and soul with all its joy, satisfaction, peace, love, and wisdom
isn't simply something you may experience more totally; it's what you've
always been and always will be. In realizing your true nature as this fullness
of existence, you may ultimately rest from worry about worldly possessions.
Eternal Life and You
Nourish your soul for all things eternal and reduce your
attachment to all things temporal.
Chapter 1:
Wiseness
Synopsis
The truth opens up the heart and soul. This capability to sense the truth is
something we all already bear. We all have a heart and soul that's already
precisely showing us how true matters are.
Anything that places you in touch with more of the reality opens up the
connection to the spiritual. Once your experience is imparting more truth,
there's a sense of opening up, softening, easiness, enlargement, fulfillment,
and gratification …
Connecting With Self Instead Of Stuff
This may be most directly felt in the core of the chest, but the heart and soul
of all existence is infinite and consequently in reality bigger than your
whole body.
So this opening up, softening, and enlargement is in reality happening
everyplace; we simply sense it most clearly and directly in the core of the
chest.
Once you meet truth, the sense of your self opens up, enlarges, softens, fills
out, and relinquishes. The sense of your world is no longer felt to be so
confined or little. It gets to be more complete and limitless. The limits
soften and fade away, and any sense of deficiency, limit, or deficiency is
decreased or annihilated.
As a side effect of becoming in touch with more of the truth, your brain gets
quieter as you merely have less to consider. Even acknowledging a simple
truth like where your keys are provides you less to consider.
And once you touch on a real big truth, your brain becomes even stiller, like
once you view the sea for the first time: The reality or truth you’re looking
at is so vast that at least for a minute your brain is stopped and gets really
quiet.
In direct contrast, once your experience is getting into a decreased or
smaller experience of the reality and of truth, the heart and soul narrows.
The sense of your world becomes tight, firm, compressed, and feels
incomplete, limited, and restricted. It may feel like you're little, inadequate,
or despicable.
The smallness of the reality is reflected in the littleness of the sense of your
world. The result of being less in touch with reality is that your brain gets
busier as it attempts to work out what is real.
As luck would have it, your existence is never belittled or contracted, only
the sense of your self. Even as cutting your view of the whole room by partly
covering up your eyes makes your sensation of the room littler without
really making the room littler, an thought or notion that’s not really true is
mused in a small sense of your self, without really limiting or condensing
your existence.
Drill: Take a minute to sense your heart and soul. This may help you get
more in touch with what is occurring there. Mark if the heart and soul feels
comparatively compressed or comparatively open. In either event, your
heart and soul is working absolutely to show you the degree of truth you’re
getting in this instant. There's no wrong way for your heart and soul to
react. It’s forever showing you the relative truth of this instant.
Truth is what subsists, what is current now. So, if what subsists is likewise
what’s true, then there's only truth. Whatever is current is true—but to
variable degrees.
Just as there's no actual matter or energy that's darkness, but simply
altering amounts of the power of light, there's no untruth or falsity, only
changing degrees of the truth.
Our heart and soul openness or lack or receptivity in every instant is what
shows us how much of the truth