Your Heart Knows The mind that knows suffering understands little to the heart that feels pain. For compassion stems not from the head but is borne of a heart that cares. A vast library of the knowledge of suchness teaches well the learned scholar, but it is in the heart that sets forth with unbiased love that the Great Lessons of Life are unveiled. For the heart that knows how to beat to the rhythm of all drums cannot be drawn out in words. Little means of sympathy from above; Greatness is standing alongside and suffering with another. For the finger that points downward reaches not in the places of those whose hand tenderly holds another. When your right hand is wounded, is it the head that reaches down to comfort it? Nay, it is the left hand that covers the wound and nurtures the pain of the right. When you feel the pain of your friends’ crucifixion, is it your head that you clutch at? When you watch helplessly the slaughter of an innocent creature, is it your head that sinks as their blood spills? Nay, it is your heart which you tear at. Your head is useful for laying down plans but it is with your heart with which you ought set forth. It is in the depths of your heart where your greatest longing resides. So let your heart determine the beat to which your feet walk, that they may walk with tender care to the places of most need. ~ Debra Gibson
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:51:52 +0000
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