Meditational Musings

 '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 descr...

 i think i don't understand the concept of familial love because, if love is supposed to be unconditional, and people who are family pull away from you or offer you anger/resentment/upset without ever really empathizing with your point of view, then - to me - the translation of that is they don't unconditionally love you. And if there is love that is -not- unconditional, that means it can get taken away. So if they pull away, and you never get anything that feels like it matches that energetic frequency again...yes, you can understand logically that they love you, but the energetic sensation doesn't feel 'right'. It doesn't feel like unconditional love, because it's buried under layers of their own hurts and pains, so isn't translating properly. Assuming they aren't being -intentionally- malicious.  For those that have been intentionally malicious, my money is on that they - at some point in their life, whether consciously or unconsciously - made the...