What You Think?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
What You Think?
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Sat, 09-16-2006 - 1:37am
Once an old woman told me, like an advice, that the longest journey in life is from your head to your heart. For a long time I thought she meant to listen to your heart and do what it desires, but lately I am beginning to suspect that there has to be more or that it has to be more complicated. For example, even if you make up your mind to pursue your goal, you may still not get what you want. It may come some time in the future, or never come at all. Do you have any idea or did the old woman forget to tell me the corollary?
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Registered: 11-01-2005
In reply to: akt226
Sat, 09-16-2006 - 2:19am

I take it to mean that everything in our head is about perception and knowledge. Things we have absorbed and learned in our lifetimes. Rules and regulations about how to run our lives. It tells us how to exist. In the meantime our hearts hold our own personal truth. It is our essence, our center, our purpose. It tells us how to live. Most people only exist. That longest journey is connecting existing with living. Connecting all our knowledge with our own truth and being able to live with both.

JMO

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Registered: 03-20-2003
In reply to: akt226
Sat, 09-16-2006 - 10:43am

I take it to mean that a lot of times, what our heads tell us to do (logic) and what our hearts want us to do (emotion) are far from the same thing.