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Monday, June 18, 2007Spiritual Development as Global WarmingThe mind receives warmth from the heart and reflects it back to the heart as light, which, over time, effects climactic change, magnifying and enlarging the heart’s warmth. The heart radiates this greater heat back to the mind, increasing the mind’s luminosity which in turn further warms the heart…
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That's beautiful. It's all about the global reciprocity of love. It makes the heart flutter and the world sing.
THURSDAYNEXT: Yeah, that topic is something I could rant about forever. I remember when they first started talking about global warming what - twenty five years ago? And corporate leaders would be interviewed on the Sunday talk shows and, in a nutshell, their arguments always ran: "Well, since we don't know for certain that our activities are harming the environment, let's keep doing them just in case they aren't."
It made me really mad at the time, and here we are today...
ALEXYS, thanks. And for me, it's also about the way it seems to take awhile for me to absorb an insight into my feelings - or, sometimes, to understand something that's arrives more as a feeling.
I understand about how sometimes it takes time to realize, get in touch with, or feel our own feelings, but man when we do, that is something we never forget. Good, bad, or otherwise.
Nice.
WHITE FOREST, thanks, and I like the new avatar.
If you look at the Jungian concept of projection, it says we project our inner realities outward. Feelings and thoughts manifest in physical form. Inner disharmony projects outward as outer disharmony.
As far as what happens outside us (to us?) and inside us being perfectly connected, I'd need to hear more about what you mean. On the face of it, this seems like it would be a hard thing to view as a universal rule or law simply because of the tremendous amount of suffering in the world that millions experience through no apparent fault of their inner beings - but quite clearly at the hands of other people whose inner beings appear pretty messed up!
Some suffering happens due to our own inner lives, but as far as I can tell, a lot happens for other reasons. Also, doing well in one's inner life is no guarantee against running into these other sources of suffering, which, as far as I can see, come with the contingent nature of being human and mortal.
Regardless of the research, bringing heart and mind together creates for a more integrated and powerful (in the positive sense) human being.
DEBBIE C: I can remember reading something similar too, and at the time, it made a lot of sense to me because I recognized that I'd already had the experience of it. Maybe the best ideas in this area are those that resonate because at some level we already know about them.
My gosh, this is true! How many times do we know that we know something, but can't put it to words. Yet we recognize it when someone else has put it to words.
Then I run into a poet with this amazing capacity to evoke something of that response with language! So it wasn't until I was nineteen that I became conscious of something that had been a huge factor for me all the time I was growing up. Maybe that's what writing does at its best - makes you sharply aware of things you only kind of knew about and thus better able to take direction from them.
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But I'm thinking I should really call you "Mystery Woman" given how anonymous you've become recently...
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