HEART AND MIND

 

HEART AND MIND

As an organ, the heart sends the blood around one’s body. More than that it is the place where a person has feelings and emotions.

The mind enables a person to be aware of the world and register experiences.

Whereas the heart is emotional, the mind is logical. Moreover, one can exist without the mind but not the heart. The heart is the central organ, the key part of one’s body.

The metaphorical qualities of the heart are: love, affection, sympathy.  kindness, compassion, empathy, pathos, goodwill, fellow-feeling, benevolence, and humanitarianism.  These can be complimented with such qualities as enthusiasm, keenness, eagerness, liveliness, bravery, courage, guts, fortitude, resolution, determination and boldness.

The mind can be cunning, but not the heart. The heart speaks the truth. It preserves its innocence.

The mind can be false and twist the facts. One  can misuse one’s  mind very easily but not the heart.

The mind can be heartless, but the heart cannot be mindless.

The mind is narrow. The heart is large enough to accommodate heaven and earth, all the lands and the seas.

According to the Sufi philosopher Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927): “From a mystical point of view personality is formed around the heart. For a materialist the heart is the piece of flesh hidden in the breast., but for the mystic the heart is the centre of the person round which the personality is formed. Consciously or unconsciously man loves the word ‘heart’, and if we were to ask a poet to leave out that word and write the poems without using it, he would never satisfy himself or others. “

Most of the people come near to each other by way of the heart.  

  The poet-dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616 ) said: “A good heart is worth gold. “ The English novelist Charles Dickens (1812-!870)  found the truest wisdom in a loving heart. The French bishop Jacques  Benigne  Bossuet (1627-1704) felt that the heart has reasons that reason does not understand. The English poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) claimed that there is no instinct like that of the heart.   

The French satirist Antolne Rivarol (1753-1801) said :” Mind is the partial side of man; the heart is everything. “.  

Finally, these two famous quotes: ( i) The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in the world.

 (ii) The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

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G.R.Kanwal

29 November 2024