Note 41 - 'When the heart thinks, and the mind feels...'

 'When the heart thinks, and the mind feels, the river of wisdom will flow.' -original source unknown | I heard it from polymath Robert Edward Grant a few times and it's been tugging about my mind ever since.


I remember one of my teachers talking about how she and some of her friends were practicing with feeling their heart-space expand or contract based on what they were thinking about. I believe she said they were practicing it based on what options they had in front of them, as in 'do this, expand or contract? do this? feel for expand or contract'. That sort of thing.


Perhaps that is what is being spoken about in the quote. The sensation of the expansion or contraction within the chest would be the heart 'thinking' - offering its version of thoughts on the given option. 


The mind would then be the one 'feeling' the sensation of it, in how it perceives the information being offered by the heart. This sounds to me like how inspiration has been described before - that thing that just sounds or feels like such a good idea that it feels unpleasant or seems silly not to do it. 


So, then, perhaps that would make inspiration the 'river of wisdom'. Seems to echo what I hear from most of the various spiritual teachers - from ancient to more modern day, whether they're calling it intuition or inspiration.


Makes me wonder if practicing with that technique - of feeling for the expansion or contraction and basing choices off that when possible - would further the goal of a deeper sense of self-love/empowerment/unity consciousness.

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