We speak over and over about your hearts. Let us begin today’s message with that and see a little of why it is so important.
You have all been told, for as long as you can remember, that you think with your brain. Actually you do not. Your brain is a marvelous instrument, but it is only an instrument. You are more than a little likely, as you are one who reads these messages, to understand that you are not a package of meat and bones with a life, a mind, and a soul, but a life, a mind, and a soul that lives in a package of meat and bones. You temporarily inhabit your body, and for the time that such is the case, it is actually within you, even though it feels as if you are within it.
The connecting link between you, as a life, and your temporary home, is another one of your bodies which contains centers of energy which perform certain functions for you. Of these centers, your teachings have given major importance to seven. And of these seven, one happens to be located in the vicinity of the organ that pumps blood through your systems. It is this we refer to when we say your heart.
As applies to your life, it is this center which is associated with the feelings of love, compassion, and those higher feelings that we speak so often about. Other major centers are devoted to other things. For instance, feelings dealing with survival are centered lower down in the system. And the feelings we call higher, the love, compassion, empathy, and so on, are felt most strongly through this heart center. Now there is nothing that is a part of you which is not important, so higher, as we just used the word, does not mean that other feelings are not necessary or important. The urge to run when startled is hardly less important, do you see? But the ability to identify with the suffering of another, to love all life, and to desire with all one’s heart to attain spiritual goals is rather lofty, is it not? What you have often missed is that these things are not only not possible, but not desirable, when life is hanging on a thread. So the word higher needs to be understood a little differently.
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