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Charles White11 said:Look, everything you said stands. Life is brutal; there's no debating that. You step out with the raw honesty of a child, and you get smacked upside the head for it. You end up feeling like a lamb surrounded by "predators." If you don't learn how to swim, you're almost certainly going to sink. I'll sign my name to that.
But, strangely enough—despite all that logic and the realization that I'm bound to take a hit—I’ve come to realize that the heart isn't "awakened" by making compromises with the relentless world around us. Instead, it’s awakened by a persistent, selfless naivety that refuses to do any math. This kind of sincerity I'm talking about doesn't come cheap. You don't trade it away, my friend. I'd go as far as to say: "If it weren't for that quality, we wouldn't even exist."
I wouldn't call what you wrote "nonsense"—even if you try to mask it. I have a feeling that what you're writing here is deeply sincere.
I can see it clearly in your reaction to that cheesy bit of fluff: "The weak-hearted drift away on poetry, writing verses and reciting rhymes..."
If it makes you feel any better—it hurt me to write it, too!
But for me, it isn't "hard" or "easy." I don't know; those are just categories people use to judge one another because it helps them tolerate themselves. This isn't some idyllic escape from paradise.😕 😬
trnde rnde bla bla
When a person decides to engage life with their heart—meaning they actually step into it wide open—it most often results in what I’ve previously described as a collision. It’s a high-stakes gamble: you either emerge transformed or you get crushed by the weight of it all.😬
If you manage to remain open through the impact, you gain an experience that you can finally begin to process intellectually. When things begin from the heart, the intellect is activated. This is the natural, logical progression. You could say you are thinking with your heart while utilizing your intelligence to facilitate a "new cycle." How successfully this cooperation is established determines whether a person can move toward a meaningful direction. Yet, even that direction is essentially introspection. Everything is already present within us; we simply have to arrive at it. So, everything is exactly as it should be—even those tedious emotional outbursts disguised as sweet poetry or whining....
The second issue is that this collision often triggers a defensive closing mechanism. It's the classic "they're out to get me" or "I'll just get burned" mentality. People frequently become terrified of the consequences of being vulnerable, simply because their limited perception tells them that openness only brings hardship. But that isn't the reality. The problem is that the intellect takes total control over the system, and then we wonder why we hit such a wall. And so it goes, for an entire lifetime... trndelamrna... bla bla nonsense.😬
Charles White11 said:If we didn't have hearts beating in our chests, how on earth would we express any emotion at all?
For those with a truly resilient heart, even the most overwhelming passions can be mastered;
they won't be allowed to consume them from within like some bitter, wasting disease.
Those with weaker hearts tend to get swept away by poetry—writing verses and reciting rhymes just to cope...
But the heart remains our only true sanctuary.
Without it, we wouldn't even exist.
Honestly, you're just talking nonsense. What is wrong with beautiful poems (or even ugly ones😬) born from deep thought, suffering, joy... everything else that gets stirred up through the process of searching with the heart? You're just talking crap.😬
All you self-proclaimed geniuses and wise guys 😬
Not at all. He simply is. What exactly are you planning to bring to the table? You spend all your time overthinking this, endlessly meditating on it, and then—presto! If you don't transform into some religious zealot who feels a desperate, burning need to force their views of His omnipresence onto everyone else by any means necessary, or if you aren't a total fanatic drowning in a sea of divine grace while constantly preaching about "love" 😍 then... perhaps there might be something worth discussing...😁