Heart
The heart is the feeling capacity of the soul, the soul’s capacity to know intimately.
Spacecruiser Inquiry, p. 144 • discuss »
Spacecruiser Inquiry, p. 144 • discuss »
The heart's love of truth is not a thought or an idea. It is not a matter of trying to live according to an ideal. It’s not a motive that comes from the mind. It is an impulse from the depth of the soul, a deeply felt motive from the heart. It is not that we think and deliberate and decide that truth is good for us, so we end up wanting it. Love of the truth is not utilitarian. The truth often ends up being utilitarian, but that is not what inspires the right attitude for the journey. The correct attitude is that of a lover who wants to be close to the Beloved.
Spacecruiser Inquiry, p. 126 • discuss »
Spacecruiser Inquiry, p. 126 • discuss »
When you really like to discover the truth, when you just like to see and feel what’s true, this indicates that you like being yourself. It is lovely to be where one is without rejection, without the need to be somewhere else to be okay. In this place, the heart opens up, and there is enough space to feel joy. There’s contentment and peacefulness, and a personalness to the contentment and peace that gives the feeling of intimacy. You are intimate with yourself when you’re simply being where you are.
Spacecruiser Inquiry, p. 196 • discuss »
Spacecruiser Inquiry, p. 196 • discuss »
The courageous heart is independent of what the other person does and what the other person thinks of you. To have a courageous heart, you need to accept a certain kind of aloneness, a certain kind of independence. With the courageous heart, you are so independent that the person can do all kinds of unpleasant things but you can still see the reality. In that independence, the feeling is that you have to give constantly, regardless of what the other person does or what the situation is.
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 203 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 203 • discuss »
Pure heart is what I also call the courageous heart. The courageous heart does not eliminate love when there is hatred and does not try to choose one thing above another. The pure heart is open to the presentations of Being regardless of what they are. It is happy to be with whatever God wills and asserts no position. The attitude of purity is the attitude of no assertion. You don't assert any truth. You don't assert any knowledge, any perspective, any position. You don't take a position; you don't have a position; you don't have a particular truth, opinion, belief, religion. You are absolutely poor. The attitude of purity is that you never close your mind and say that's it. You never close the door. You are open not because you are uncertain, but because it is not possible to assert this or that about reality in some absolute way. And also there is no need or urge to assert this or that view.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 22 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 22 • discuss »
The heart is what possesses the truth sense, not the mind. The mind can discriminate and know, but it is the heart that ascertains whether it is the truth. Since the Beloved is the ultimate truth, only the heart will know it for certain. And since the heart primordially loves the truth, the ultimate truth is inherently its deepest Beloved.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 33 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 33 • discuss »
What we call heart is not exactly what we usually think of as the heart. More precisely, our usual understanding of heart is a very limited way of knowing the real heart. At the beginning of our inner work, we experience our heart as emotions and feelings. At deeper levels, we experience our heart as the essential heart with love, compassion, joy, and all of the qualities of essence. The essential heart leads to the aspect of truth, the solid gold of truth, which is the source of the essential heart. Beyond the aspect of truth is the heart of nonattachment, which does not distinguish between heart and mind. Knowing and feeling coincide as pure sensitivity.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 176 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 176 • discuss »
Discuss Heart
To discuss an individual definition, click the discuss » link below that definition.
