Forever

Of all the things we go searching for in life, forever is one of the most futile and most elusive searches of all. It is elusive in that it is often disguised as a need for security, or a need for a guarantee of our security. And this of course is actually fear based. The need for forever is futile because forever is actually already here, and it is “disguised” as love.

For if there is one guarantee in all of life, it is that all is love. You can be secure in that. The need for forever is actually one of the veils, a self imposed and mass imposed thought form we have chosen to protect ourselves from ourselves because we are afraid.

Ironically, our need to put things in a box called forever, actually limits our experience of forever, because our concept of forever is much smaller than forever actually is. So in our need to have forever, we actually limit it. And it is like that game for children where blocks of certain shapes must be matched with the holes of the same shape. Where we have a limiting definition or need for forever to be a certain form, we pass by, often do not accept, love that comes in other shapes and sizes than our perceived needs when we could actually get love in a much higher form than we expected if we let go of the expectation. The universe if full of delectable experiences and yet we go “shopping” with the same expectations, with the same list as we always carry, pushing our carts (our hearts) down the same old aisles, seeing the same choices. Or, to use another example, it is like trying to understand the ocean unaware that we are using only a thimble as our concept.

What does forever mean to you? When we trace the meaning of this word back to wherever we obtained it, it usually connects to so many people and events that we find ourselves trapped, wrapped in cords of our own making. We realize we are like dogs on a leash, except we are being walked by our own definitions, definitions that no longer fit.

Forever may mean responsibility, another heavy word to most of us. Responsibility means the ability to respond. And we respond via our definition of who and what we are accountable to. Again we are responding here to our definitions. Even our values are based on our definitions. This is one reason why people from different cultures and different backgrounds often have communication difficulties.

Yet forever does exist. For all our chasing after it, for all our looking for it, you will experience it when you stop trying to find it. Love is recycled. Just as when you pass from this life in human form to the next. Your energy shifts. You are still love, just in a different form. And since you exist for forever, you have recycled, taken another turn on the spiral of life and love. It is only in trying to figure out what we have not yet experienced, or trying to see what is happening via an outdated understanding (such as the thimble) that holds us back from knowing forever, knowing love.

When we try to understand forever, we get trapped in our own cords. Forever is too vast for us to easily understand the way we used to understand things. It is more of a felt sense. You may have noticed over time that your felt sense, your ability to understand in a “new” or intuitive way is growing. Humanity, indeed all beings on your planet, and Earth herself are opening to new ways of being which require new ways of understanding and knowing. You do not need to know where your definitions of forever, or of anything else, came from. This will just cause you to create new cords involved with responsibility and struggle to figure things out. You do not need to know who or what you are allowing to walk you on your leash. All you need to do is surrender the leash, let go of the cords.

Signed English, a type of sign language, translates “forever” into the words “always still.” We suggest that when you realize that you can enter into the stillness of the oneheart, onelove and onemind, you will find the always, the forever that you have been searching for. It is always there, for love is a constant and love is forever.

Linda White Dove, 2/2000

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