Amidst recent heartbreak and despair, I prayed for some illumination to come through. I needed a higher perspective. An understanding for why I was still undergoing so much suffering. Several months had passed since a tragic breakup but I felt unable to let go of the lingering pain of loss. It seemed like many lifetimes of suffering had coalesced into one, dismantling my life without a warning.
My call was answered through a vivid dream. I was taken inside the heart and saw that nobody had ever left. All was happening simultaneously, beyond time.. like actors gliding through empty air, and the emptiness contained all. The suffering is a tool, although ultimately an illusion, created to help us remember that this play isn’t real.
Inside the heart, all was one, and we were each other, throughout many lifetimes, never apart. There was nobody to abandon. No heartbreak and no pain. Only tremendous compassion and understanding that transcended all forms of suffering. The heart was all-knowing. There was nothing to attain, nothing to grasp. We were not two people hurting each other, but one omniscient being experiencing itself through many forms and costumes, like actors in a play.
As soon as I was outside the heart again, things would appear separate and thoughts of suffering would emerge. The dimension of duality we live in, is a game of endlessly alternating pain and pleasure. But this is not the ultimate reality. There is a higher dimension, and this is where the heart lives, beyond all pain and pleasure. The experiences we believe to be love in this 3D realm, are nothing but tiny glimpses into what LOVE actually is.
Did you know that you can go inside your heart, and it is also the heart of all — the one cosmic heart?
Within this unconditional, non dual realm of love, there is no pain, no separation, no coming or going, and no identity. Thus, the heart cannot break. It is empty but contains ALL.
artist: unknown
