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12 States of the Heart, Path of Love,
and the Expressions of God
The 12 States of the Heart are correlated with the Levels of Consciousness, but they are perceived through the Path of Love, a Path that reveals the deepest heart of hearts.
As human beings, we have experienced forgetfulness and have dismissed the Divine within. We have identified ourselves with limiting and partial truths of the eternal boundless ocean of love.
As we journey through the 12 States of the Heart, we will explore the various ways we may perceive the Divine and feel God within. As we journey through the 12 States of the Heart, we delve deep within us, exploring the inner horizons. At each stage of Love, we perceive a different aspect of the heart, for it is the Divine manifesting in diverse ways.
Every expression of the heart carries its unique reflections and facets. Thus, regardless of the extent of our Divine Realization, a thread of truth runs through it all, guiding us and beckoning us towards our true spiritual eternal Home.
Merging with the Divine is not for the faint of heart as it requires us to become
selfless and absolutely devoted to God.
We all have experienced heartbreaks, and, at some point in time, our heart shut down due to fear and suffering. An ego-based mechanism believes that keeping our hearts closed will protect us from experiencing further suffering.
By now, you may have realized that this approach doesn't work. Thus, we must be strong and face our fears, deepest grief, and pain to overcome these challenges and move beyond.
Certain past life events have led to psychological, emotional trauma and other dysfunctions. We believed that these fragments define us; thus, the further we awaken, the more we realize that we are whole, and have always been. We are boundless, loving beings who, in essence, are untouched and unbroken.
Nothing has ever touched the boundlessness; it has always been intact. No matter what you've been through, no matter how alone, distant, separate, or painful your experiences have been, your boundless being remains intact.
The challenge is that you may have forgotten the essence of your being, and by redirecting your focus beyond your five senses, the eternal truth will reveal itself.
Eventually, you will free yourself from these dysfunctions and restore your unconditional boundless nature on all levels, making it easier to become increasingly intimate with yourself, until you are ready to merge completely into the Divine.
However, this process should not be forced as everyone has their own pace and timing. Just like, in nature, fruits can only be harvested when they are fully grown and ripened, there is a timing for everything. By respecting and honoring this timing, we also honor our humanity. Through readiness and Soul maturity, we ripen and prepare for the next level of intimacy with the Divine.
You can always ask yourself, ‘Can I be closer to the Divine than I Am Now?’.
By going within and looking deep into the inner horizon, one can see the different states, dimensions, vibrations, and regions of the Universe. Light is information presented by these states of consciousness, and it is not something separate from one another but rather what is encompassing from the beyond. The Source, bright, radiant light, encompasses all the 12 States of the Heart.
The highest, light is always here. It's just that from the level of the emotional heart, one is limited to that which is beyond. In the Oneness and Unity, is an ocean of pink light, which represents the inner Love and expansion of love to unite with the planetary's Consciousness. For example, Inner Love & Unity encompass the Inner Light, Acceptance, and the Emotional Heart.
The Absolute Heart, the Boundless Love, and Mercy, encompasses ALL. By knowing how to navigate step by step, we open up and realize what has been dismissed, forgotten, or overlooked.
As we move up the scale, from the state of being to the state of the heart, our concept of God changes. It changes according to our progress, our openness, and our realization. Therefore, the Divine, as we know it, grows progressively vaster, more encompassing, increasingly powerful, and filled with greater Blissful and Boundless Love.
12 States Of The Heart
Emotional Heart
Identification with this type of love is a feeling of emotional love. This love is the most conditional love, usually protected by fear, and has strong concepts of how love should look like. A person may hold a lot of pain from the past and is afraid he/she will get hurt again, thus keeping the heart protected with fear and insecurities, thinking that’s how they can escape from being hurt again. The emotional heart is very limited and usually feels very heavy.
How to heal the Emotional Heart
As a person starts to evolve, one very soon realizes that the way out of this heaviness is to forgive and accept ourselves, be free from past life experiences, and heal our past straight from our hearts. One must forgive the past, forgive oneself, and accept reality as it occurred and unfolded in life. People usually process the heaviest emotions being released. It is a phase of letting go of the past by completing the cycles by practicing self-acceptance, forgiveness, and allowance.
Inner Wisdom / Forgiveness
When the hearts open to Inner Wisdom. A deeper understanding and spiritual wisdom start being attained. Inner Light awakens. The heart becomes illuminated for the first time. Lightness and initial freedom are experienced. The heart's inner voice becomes more evident and real in your everyday life. The heart starts showing you the way as the intuition becomes more ripened. You are awakening the higher self.
The way to heal your heart is through acceptance and forgiveness, by processing grudges, pain, and suffering. You need to pause for a moment, look within, and then, look outside. This is where people get stuck in life, as they find it hard to make peace with their past emotions. Without forgiveness and acceptance and a conscious willingness to turn inward and face our shadows, it is impossible to transform and open our hearts to a deeper level. Through forgiveness and acceptance, we can truly make peace with our past.
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Inner Love
When Inner Love awakens, the ocean of love is experienced, and one realizes that everything is made of Love. The heart opens to feel one another. It's like a flower blooming. Happiness and Joy arise. Here is where you enter the heavenly realm. Heaven awakens within the heart. Joy, Serenity, and all the beautiful qualities of the heart give a glimpse of the capacity to love oneself and another. A honeymoon love. Here becomes a process of healing with self-love.
Inner love is intelligent, and it transcends the intellect, as love has mutual attraction, not necessarily towards a woman or man. This awakening of Inner Love is a direct recognition that love has always been within us. A mutual attraction can exist within our heart, Soul, and deepest being. Our innermost core beckons us towards this attraction, sending signals and messages to our conscious mind, urging us to connect with something profound.
Oneness
Here is when the heart opens into becoming one with the planetary consciousness, the oneness of love. You are feeling Oneness and connectedness with nature and one with another. You feel that you belong, and you awaken to a higher desire to want and change the world around you. The light body (Merkaba) activates.
The love of Oneness is an expansion of Inner Love, where the sense of love becomes more unconditional. As the heart opens, there may be a releasing of the lower emotional energy that has been part of the rigid mental and emotional conditioning. The spiritual heart grows more as your connection expands, encompassing the planet, until the feeling of separation merges into oneness and completion. It is an understanding and an experience that each of us is connected within this field of Love.
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Presence of the Heart and Soul
The awakening of the Presence of Heart and Soul is a profound opening. Expanding and deepening into the depths of your being. The Heart and Soul unite and function together in Presence. A deep great emptiness that is vast and open, is experienced as deep peace and silence within. The Soul shines forth and a deeper Soul healing occurs from this depth.
This is a ‘Being’ consciousness, rather than a ‘Doing’. It is the ‘I AM-ness’, where Being is preferred, rather than interacting with energies and objective phenomena. At this stage of spiritual awakening, it is important to start familiarizing with the Unknown, surrendering to the loving Presence of our Being, and laying down the foundation of Space and Openness for the journey to the Absolute Heart in Full Consciousness.
Non-Dual Heart
It takes some maturing into presence until one ripens and surrenders into the Non-Dual Heart. A learning process of dual energies, emotions that the non-dual heart had the awareness to recognize these polarities within it. This heart now understands it's not about good or bad or right or wrong. It can merely see both ends of the same energy stream. Easier to digest. When the heart processes most of the dualities, it matures and opens to greater knowledge.
This deeping into the heart of being enables us to assimilate polarities, differences, and inner conflicts that have diverted our attention from the profound Truth. In this state, we perceive God differently, appearing as a much lighter space, expansive and deeper in essence. This depth symbolizes transcendence, immense strength, and the capacity to embrace opposing forces. Non-Dual Love marks the beginning of transcending dual energies and opening up to a greater capacity.
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The Heart of All-ness
Universal Intelligence is now accessing the heart. Awareness becomes more evident. Very bright and valuable. The heart feels very abundant and has access to knowledge and enlightened nature. It`s a state of I am All-ness. All with everything in the manifested world/worlds. Your heart encompasses the Universe like a second honeymoon return.
Loving Awareness is instant and direct, surpassing the constraints of energy, time, and space. Hence, Loving Awareness is at incredible proximity, at which the Divine presence of God soars and intimately connects with us. In Loving Awareness, you experience the luminosity of Awareness as yourself. That is why it's considered the first step of spiritual Enlightenment. Loving Awareness is the realization of Awareness as your own Self. In Loving Awareness, the world seems less of a problem, and life seems to flow more smoothly. Meanwhile, the subconscious material is still surfacing to clear, but this material is increasingly subtler and easier to manage.
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The Unknown Mysticism
At some point, if you are still willing to surrender further, you must allow all this attainment to go to deepen into the unknown. The Great Unknown. The dark matter. The unconsciousness. The light of awareness is so intense that it seeps and penetrates the depths of the unconscious heart. It is lightening what you haven't had access to till this point—stepping into an unknown heart—a very mystical state.
The Unknown can be uncomfortable for many as it may agitate the mind, stirring up insecurities and instabilities. Knowing has a grip, a fixation, but the Unknown is lighter and more open. Knowing holds onto a collection of memories and assumptions, while the Unknown does not hold onto anything. The Known is a structure built within us, along with our identity. When we surrender the mental structures within us, we may perceive it as a form of death or loss. However, this death or loss is incredibly freeing. It signifies the death or loss of a construct and a limitation that hindered our connection to the Divine.
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Divine Love
One matures and opens a beautiful divine marriage when one completes the cycles from deep unconsciousness. A marriage with the Divine Heart. The Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine Merges. An experience of merging in union with divine love. A celebration of Divine love. The highest form of the feminine and the masculine meet. The heart gets blessed by Divine Grace. Your heart becomes a Graceful heart and genuinely compassionate heart.
In the Divine, any sense of individuality or energy completely dissolves. None of these aspects exist in this plane of existence. Instead, what we encounter here is an infinite love that manifests as God itself. When we awaken to this aspect of Divine Love Union, we realize that we are eternal Souls, ever one with God.
Divine Love eternity transcends and extends infinitely without any boundaries or limitations. The Divine has no edges; instead, it possesses endless depth. Divine Love is the second step of Enlightenment, when we go beyond the deepest unconsciousness and come out of the Creation of universes into the Divine, where Pure Consciousness can be experienced more directly.
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Truthful Heart
The next opening is into the Truth Body. The Heart becomes illuminated with all left to be seen and cleared out of the way. Every root cause, every little cloud that is in the way, and any concept still lingering, is lifted by the clarity of truth, Consciousness, and bliss. Clearing and cleaning the last bits in the way, illuminating like thunder, unhooking from its root core.
We allow higher Divine Grace to align and connect us with the eternal love that transcends anything in the external world and with any form. Thus, if we touch upon it, then, it appears everywhere. There is a gateway here, an entry point for us to go within and rise above all worldly distractions, above any streams of energies that pull us here or there.
With the guidance and support of a Spiritual Master or Divine Being, we can be directed along the right path, just like walking up a mountain and knowing which pathway to follow. And at the top of the mountain is where we can meet the Beloved, Divine Love and bliss. The Spiritual Masters and Divine Beings are the ones who show us the way to the True Home, illuminating the pathway to the Source, to the loving union with pure God.
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The Absolute Heart
Up to a moment when the clear shield or glass around these heartbreaks, every concept dies; it's like hitting the bottom and cracking open. The Absolute Heart is Now Here. The most natural state of love Is Present. Love beyond birth or death. Love that can`t be broken. Love is not opposing anything—love, which IS. Love is complete within itself. Love is fully fulfilled by itself. Eternal love. Love that is Freedom. A powerless Power. A Stateless State. Consciousness Itself.
Every Soul strives, at their own pace, to eventually return to this state of consciousness. It is the Absolute Self, Absolute Love, God Self, the Source of All that is.
It is the final state of Non-Dual Enlightenment, thus completing human consciousness. Divine and the ordinary become ONE. There is no more separation between physical and spiritual as all separations are dissolved.
There is only the Self. All is seen as Self. All emanates from, and all IS, this Primordial Consciousness. The Self is unborn, undying, undivided, and inseparable. It is all there IS, manifested and unmanifested, as the Source of both. It is the ‘I AM THAT’. Eternal love goes beyond life and death and beyond words. In voiceless speech, you shall know the love of the Self.
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