The Whole Thing...

William Adolphe Bouguereau

"The whole thing, 

the most difficult thing, 

is to wake the heart. 

Somehow one has to learn 

to be able to live in the heart, 

to judge from the heart, 

as ordinarily we live in mechanical mind 

and judge from that. 

It is shifting the centre of attention in oneself. 

For the movements of the heart 

are so quick 

that only if one can learn 

to live there for some time, 

is it possible to catch them 

as they pass and obey them. 

This also means 

that we have to learn to feed the heart, 

taking emotional impressions directly there; 

just as we now take knowledge 

directly into the mind."

~Rodney Collin - Theory of Conscious Harmony

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