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I Knew Their Hearts (Jeff Olsen)
- We are all one.
- There are no accidents.
- Don’t judge anyone.
- We are all here to learn.
- Treasure the simple things.
- We help create our experiences.
- We are loved, cherished, and honored.
- Our bodies are temples of the divine.
- No one truly dies; no one is ever lost.
- Everyone is on their own unique journey.
- To what degree have you learned to love?”
- God knows and loves everyone very personally.
- We experience life in a way that makes us more godlike.
- to fill the emptiness of our souls is painful and futile)
- Our hearts know the answer to whatever questions we have.
- In order to know another person’s heart, we must first know our own.
- Glimpses of eternity sometimes make things more difficult in this world
- Choose to see every experience positively; as opportunities to learn, grow,
- In every situation we encounter, especially the challenging ones, choose joy.
- Everything happens for a reason; there is purpose in every circumstance; there
- True peace can only be found from the inside out (looking to people and things
- One of the best ways to ease our pain is to reach out and be fully present for
- I’ve learned to treasure the simple things, like holding my child’s hand, or watching my wife as she sleeps.
- Was this how he walked the earth, in the consciousness of knowing each individual soul at this deep level of love?
- I felt spontaneous, intense love for each and every one of them. Not a romantic love, but a perfect, compassionate love…
- I feel the souls of others, even strangers. I no longer judge, I’m not interested in being ‘right’ – I know that love is all there is and that God loves ALL of his children deeply and equally.
- I experienced no judgement. Only love. I learned that all my judgments were self imposed. God knew me perfectly. He wasn’t testing me or proving me, He knew me already, it was only I that did not know myself.
- I moved about the hospital with ease, pausing to take in the beauty of the people I was encountering. I felt their true essence and marveled at the connection I had to each of them, even though I had never met them before…
- Most of my life, I had actually avoided people. Now, everyone I saw was truly my brother or sister. In fact it went even deeper than that. THEY were, in a strange sense, ME! We were all connected pieces in a huge puzzle of oneness.
- Words Jesus had said rushed to my recollection: ‘Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these brethren ye have done it unto me.’ Was he talking about the awareness I was experiencing? Did he feel the same thing I was feeling?
- I felt the hustle and unrest of the hallway of a hospital. I watched the doctors and nurses as they went about their duties. I moved with ease all around them. I realized none of them were aware of me. They could not see me, but – wow – could I see them!
- children to heal me, and in many ways, they all have, but looking outward for wholeness was a losing and painful battle… Not until I remembered the divinity within myself did I become whole. Only in that reality did I truly connect with others around me.
- I returned with specific gifts and deeper spirituality and love. I saw symbols much differently in religious ceremonies and embraced new, deeper meaning in everything from sacred ordinances to nature. Now, even a rain storm, or a breeze, or sun on my face is a blessed gift.
- I realized he didn’t see himself as better than the beggar or the prisoner; he knew he was one with them. He knew them perfectly, in the same way I was experiencing the strangers I saw. We are all linked and equal in God’s eyes. I was seeing it, feeling it, and experiencing it.”
- I left my body at the scene of the accident and visited another realm of light where I was told by my own deceased wife that I must return to my oldest son who also survived the accident. As I returned to my body I had profound experiences with the living people I encountered. All judgment was lost as I saw others for who they really are through God’s eyes.
- As smoothly as I had ascended to that place of peace, I was away again. There had been no judgment and no life review. It had only been a brief peak into something profound. And I drifted away, there was only one overwhelming question, not asked by a voice, but with energy that echoed into every cell of my being. The question was simply: ‘To what degree have you learned to love?’
- I ‘knew’ my whole life, every event both good and bad, yet standing in the presence of divinity I saw the pure love in all of it. There was NO judgement, only the ‘knowing’ that it was all perfect. That my entire life was created in love FOR me. Even my choices, good or bad, had served my highest good in every way. For I was only here to learn and God, along with me, had provided the perfect path for my souls progression.
- My perceptions were expanded. I knew each person I saw perfectly. I knew their joys and their sorrows. I knew their love, their hate, their pain, and their secrets. I knew everything about them, every detail, every motivation, and every outcome. I knew every emotion they were feeling, and I knew intuitively why they were feeling it. In an instant, with no contemplation, I knew them as well as I knew myself. I knew their hearts…
- I used to embrace the belief that we are separate, when in reality we are not. I’ve learned not to judge others’ lives or compare them to mine. I have no idea what their journey is about. I know each soul is on his or her individual path. They have come here to learn. And they will learn in their own way, on their own terms. I can honor their individual progression. I learned to forgive, especially myself, which has inspired me to love at a deeper level.
- If I have 5 senses here, there I had 50. It was super-real! Ever since, this realm has felt like the strange foggy dream. That was real, this is a dense illusion. During the experience I could truly see in a way indescribable. However it was far deeper than what I saw. It was the depth of what I felt. My hearing was beyond the senses of my ears. I felt every sound and word. I literally experienced the vibration of it all. In fact there were very few words or hearing, only intense knowing.
- After my experience TRUTH was far more important to me then religion. I no longer judged others. I had deeper compassion and love for my fellow beings here. I lost any fear of death or God. I felt more connected to home and realized how close angels actually are, How loved we are and how perfect the plan is for each of us no matter what path we walk. I realized what a gift my body actually is. That it is my sacred temple and that deep within my heart is my own holy of holies where I already have all my own answers.
- I grew up believing that God would judge me and that He was testing me in some way. I experienced that He loves me unconditionally and makes no judgments at all. He simply loves me enough to let me create my own experience and learn what I came here to learn from it. That what I think is bad might actually be a wonderful gift and opportunity. I learned that we are a part of God and even divine ourselves in this whole perfect process. Nothing is out of order in the universe except for us, and even that is for our own progression and growth.
- I was fortunate to have a glimpse into that oneness, and yet my life has not been easier because of it. Some of my most trying times came over the years after the accident. Knowing that such unconditional love existed beyond the veil left me feeling empty at times in this realm. I found myself searching for the same love I had experienced in my brief visits to the hereafter. The gaping hole in my heart yearned to be filled. Too often I looked to external influences to fill the void inside me. I expected my new wife to fill me up and make me whole. I expected my
- I was a part of ALL OF IT. I was as eternal as the divine Creator I stood with. I had actually taken part in creating my own life experience to learn what I wanted to come to earth to get. Truth, knowledge, light and love flowed through me in a way that I was literally a part of it. I was in God and He was in me. We were ONE. And I was at one with every soul. We were knit together as beautiful parts of the perfect whole. We definitely live on – eternally. There is NO death. Simply a passing or a return to home. We are all ONE and we are in actuality One with God. Everything is in perfect order.
- I saw purpose in every event of my entire life. I saw how every circumstance had been divinely provided for my learning and development. I had the realization that I had actually taken part in creating every experience of my life. I knew I had come to this earth for only one reason, which was to learn, and that everything that had ever happened to me had been a loving step in that process of my progression. Every person, every circumstance, and every incident was custom created for me. It was as if the entire universe existed for my higher good and development. I felt so loved, so cherished, and so honored. I realized that not only was I embraced by deity, but also that I myself was divine, and that we all are. I knew that there are no accidents in this life. That everything happens for a Yet we always get to choose how we will experience what happens to us here… Everything suddenly made sense. Everything had divine order. Jeff Olsen
- I realized that no one ever really dies. We always live on. I had experienced a God as real and tangible as we are. He knows our every heartache, yet allows us to experience and endure them for our growth. His is the highest form of love; He allows us to become what we will. He watches as we create who we are. He allows us to experience life in a way that makes us more like Him, divine creators of our own destiny.
- That everything that had ever happened to me had been a loving step in that process of my progression. Every person, every circumstance, and every incident was custom created for me. It was as if the entire universe existed for my higher good and development. I felt so loved, so cherished, and so honored. I realized that not only was I being embraced by deity, but also that I myself was divine, and that we all are. I knew that there are no accidents in this life. That everything happens for a reason. Yet we always get to choose how we will experience what happens to us here. I could exercise my will in everything, even in how I felt about the wreck and the death of my family members. God didn’t want me to hurt and feel put upon as if my son and wife had been taken from me. He was simply there assisting me to decide how I was going to experience it. He was providing me with the opportunity, in perfect love, to exercise my personal agency in this entire situation. I knew my wife and son were gone. They had died months earlier, but time didn’t exist where I was at that moment. Rather than having them ripped away from me, I was being given the opportunity to actually hand them over to god. To let them go in peace, love, and gratitude. Everything suddenly made sense. Everything had divine order. I could give my son to god and not have him taken away from me. I felt my power as a creator and cocreator with god to literally let go of all that had happened to me. I held my baby son as god himself held me. I experienced the oneness of all of it. Time did not matter. Only love and order existed. Tamara and griffin had come into my life as perfect teachers. And in leaving me in such a way, they continued as perfect teachers to bring me to that point of remembering who I was. Remembering that I was created in god’s image and actually came from him. I was aware now that I could actually walk with god, empowered by what I was learning in my life. I felt the divine energy of the being behind me inviting me to let it all go and give griffin to him. In all that peace and knowledge, I hugged my little boy tightly one last time, kissed him on the cheek, and gently laid him back down in the crib. I willingly gave him up. No one would ever take him away from me again. He was mine. We were one, and I was one with god. As soon as I breathed in all that peace, I awoke, back into the pain and darkness of my hospital bed, but with greater perspective. I marveled at what I had just experienced. It was not just a dream. It felt too real. It was real to me, far more real than the pain, the grief, and my hospital bed. Griffin was alive in a place more real than anything here. And tamara was there with him. I knew it. As the years have passed, I’ve often wondered how I could have put my son back in the crib the way I did. Maybe I should have held on and never let go. But in that place, it all made sense. I realized that no one ever really dies. We always live on. I had experienced a god as real and tangible as we are. He knows our every heartache, yet allows us to experience and endure them for our growth. His is the highest form of love; he allows us to become what we will. He watches as we create who we are. He allows us to experience life in a way that makes us more like him, divine creators of our own destiny. My experience showed me purpose and order. I knew there was a master plan far greater than my limited earthly vision. I also learned that my choices were mine alone to make. I got to decide how I felt, and that made all the difference in the universe. Even in this tragedy, I got to determine the outcome. I could choose to be a victim of what had happened or create something far greater.
