The heart's soul ...
pure, serene, fragrant as a blossom ...

A personal perspective
free from acculturation neither dependent nor exclusive of faiths.

Life, Suffering & Enlightenment
... what is the meaning and purpose?

There are basically two ways one can view life.

The reality that one's existence is often cruel, ugly and meaningless and thereby develop a tendency to respond in kind and integrate with such a "reality".

... Or the reality that such harsh environmental aspects stimulate creative growth, and the ability to rise above in ever-greater harmony, freedom and beauty.

To varied degrees both realities are very "real" fundamentally offering two choices to live by.

Everyone is presented a series of challenges large and small, the lesser as guidance to learn relatively quickly and easily rather than cumulatively. The greater hardships providing the opportunity for a corresponding leap forward to enhance well-being and further evolvement from resulting insight and empathy.

To avoid regression, stagnation and to alleviate life's travails only one lesson (realization or habit) need really be learned and applied to all forgivingly :

To gently try as best as able to be in ones "higher-self" at a given moment ( a sense of "Being" rather than "Becoming" the more fruitful. )

Whether victim or victimizer it's most important to never give up, thereby eventually moving forward. For to dwell upon the past or future other then to learn is to invite illusion, cynicism and hinder growth.

The maladies of the world and veil between "heaven" and earth are like a fog created largely by entrenchment and ignorance. The more light permitted to emanate from the higher-self the greater the dissipation and multi-dimensional revelation.

The "Higher or Greater Reality

(also referred to as the ultimate reality because of the inevitably natural gravitation
toward that which manifests the greatest harmony, happiness and fulfillment).

The higher or greater-self is a manifestation of the heart .The heart's center pure and as a holograph incorporating all "knowledge" and aspects of the universe ( the characteristics of a holograph are such that its qualities are never diminished even when fragment etc ). Its all-inclusive realms accessible through the cultivation of purification of motive ( goodness for its own sake ) ... Or outwardly as that which sustainably brings about the greatest progressive harmony amongst all things ( ... love tempered and guided by wisdom).

As the path is scaled and the higher-self rises above constricting adherences and gains dominance a gradual incline is reached in which fear and events experienced as suffering begin to fall away followed by refinement leading to every greater wisdom and happiness ...the "blossoming of the soul"... The comprehensive nature of salvation, enlightenment and "heaven" may then be experienced as "a peace that passes all understanding": The timeless serene elation of the "unified field" and or as an evolved entity and "place" ...

Ever - Present, Ever - Lasting

As a novice, like myself, you may mentally doubt how such things can come to pass. Yet accepted cutting edge physics reveal correlations and mergings equivalent to an age when the world was assumed flat when proposed round. One need only realize that dimensions of such nature inherently cannot be understood by the limitations of the mind, which is but a tool, only experienced and realized within the depths of the heart.

Inevitably all grow weary of revolving worldly artificialities and disappointments longing for the lasting fulfillment and oneness discovered when dwelling within their true home ... The heart's all but forgotten yet ever-present aspect as a portal and source of all-encompassing illuminating beauty.

"Heaven's at hand ... within ...
the truth written in the heart, to free " Bible

For within the heart and that which manifests outward there-from, such as the qualities of kindness, are of far greater value, influence and of enduring character than all other endeavors in life ... remembered and treasured above and beyond all else.

A great and wonderful spirit has implanted within the heart of everything a part of itself ... an immortal " seed of divine light", which when nurtured by goodwill towards all things, flowers into an all embracing beautifying state of being from which everything can be realized.

Clarification:

Other faiths may declare exemption of their entity as a key factor i.e. Christ. If such an entity be essential, anyone cultivating purification of motive will naturally become aware of it.

From the Harbors of Light Collection: Inspirational writings, thoughts for the day, literature,
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