My Heart in the Garden

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” -Buddha

Heart among the branches

“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.” – Steve Jobs

Camouflage Heart

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those.” – Michael Nolan

A Crack in the Walkway

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts; don’t put up with those that are reckless with yours.” – Mary Schmich

Don't be Reckless

“Have a strong mind and a soft heart.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Heart Nestled in the Crook of a Fern

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In my spiritual tradition, and probably in most others, the word or image of the “heart” is used over and over. I have often wondered just what that is, the heart. I’ve even asked a guru about it, “when you say ‘enter the heart’ what do you exactly mean?” But, I’ve never been satisfied with the explanations. My question is usually greeted with that certain “look,” you know, the “if you have to ask the questions, you are too insensitive to understand the answer” look. What do you think it means?

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Born To Organize | December 6, 2011 at 1:22 pm

Bobba, perhaps it means different things to different people. Its possible the answers have yet to meet your expectations and you are still on your spiritual quest. When people use the expression “getting to the heart of the matter” they are looking for the essence, the core, the center of what is important. When I think of an aching heart, it’s an all-consuming grief, deep in the center of my chest, radiating outward. Painful, but necessary to understand the other extreme: when your heart “sings” after news that the biopsy is not cancer. Its that first glorious pounding in your chest that you feel when you realize the one you love, loves you back.

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