TALKING ABOUT THE HEART
It is not easy to talk about the heart. Physically it is an organ
in the chest that sends blood around the body, usually on the left in humans. More
than that it is the place in a person where the feelings and emotions are
thought to be, especially those connected with love.
No part of the human body is used in as many senses as the
heart. It means sympathy, empathy, compassion, humanity, fellow-feeling,
pathos, goodwill, humanitarianism, benevolence, kindness, liveliness, courage,
bravery, heroism, boldness, stout-heartedness, nerve, fortitude, purpose,
resolution, guts, determination, hub, essential part, sum and substance, etc.
Physically small, metaphorically, it is bigger than anything else in the
world. It can accommodate in itself the whole universe. It continues to grow
qualitatively. German thinker Jean Paul Richter (1763-1826) says memory, wit,
fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can.
Another thinker has said the heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in
this world. According to the Spanish dramatist De La Barca Pedro Calderon (1600-81}
the heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. English dramatist and
poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) considers a good heart worth gold.
There are many other quotes worth remembering such as: The
heart has reasons that reason does not understand;
the ways of the heart , like the ways of providence, are mysterious; all who
know their own minds , do not know their own hearts; and mind is the partial
side of man; the heart is everything.
Finally, the heart is so generous
that it accepts all sorts of descriptive adjectives. You can say : a good heart, a
large heart, a rich heart, a poor heart, a wicked heart, a noble heart, a
forgiving heart, a caring heart, etc.
A piece of advice: Never be
heartless. **************
G.R.Kanwal
30 July 2024
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