Dear Fellow Students
More from Meher Baba.
Love and happiness are the only important things in life, and they are both absent in the dry and factual knowledge which is accessible to the intellect.
The mind is the treasure-house of learning but the heart is the treasure-house of spiritual wisdom.
Thus mind has to work in co-operation with the heart; factual knowledge has to be subordinated to intuitive perceptions; and heart has to be allowed full freedom in determining the ends of life without any interference from the mind.
Spiritual understanding is born of harmony between mind and heart. This harmony of mind and heart does not require the mixing up of their functions. It does not imply cross-functioning, but co-operative functioning. Their functions are neither identical nor co-ordinate. Mind and heart must of course be balanced but this balance cannot be secured by pitching the mind against the heart or by pitching the heart against the mind. It can be attained not through mechanical tension, but through intelligent adjustment.
May our hearts guide the path of our lives.
Love
Charlie
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