Your heart knows in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Kahlil Gibran said that, and he was right. Listen, therefore, to your heart. Cultivate the ability to do this. Practice it. Produce it. Perfect it. It is not that difficult. Just be quiet with yourself. And for heaven’s sake, stop listening to your mind. You will not find the truth there. You may find the answer, but it will not be the truth unless it coincides with the answer in your heart. You think there is more to know about life than this, but there is not. Your heart holds the key. Your heart holds the wisdom. Your heart holds the future. Your mind knows nothing but the past. It imagines the future will be just like yesterday, so it makes it decisions based on that. Only your heart can see beyond memory’s horizon.” Neale Donald Walsh
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
I remember the week-end I read this book. President Kennedy had just been assassinated, and the following school day I gave it back to the teacher telling her that there was no little prince. Later that week she mailed it back to me, with 3 words on the inside cover.
“Yes, there is.” More than 50 yrs later, I still remember Ms Parker and her deep belief in the important role our hearts have in our lives, in how we see those around us.
Yes…. yes!!! NHT