Friday, June 30, 2006

What the heart knows ...

"What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow,"
wrote Irish storyteller James Stephens.... it will be lucky if you're smart enough to trust your heart, which has already figured out a certain truth that your head is still days away from registering. This is not merely a pretty metaphor, by the way. Despite what you may have been led to believe about the nature of the heart, it is actually an organ of intelligence that is capable of deep thought.

(from Rob Brezhnev's Free Will Astrology)

3 comments:

James Behrens, OCSO said...

What the heart knows....reminds me of the Jesuit theologian Bernard Lonergan (who was Canadian) and who wrote about how the heart knows first...and the intellect follows. James

Anonymous said...

excellent points and the details are more precise than elsewhere, thanks.

- Joe

Inna O. said...

thank you for your comments.