08/06/2020
🍂🍈To celebrate the colour of nature, the natural calmness of the heart❤ could perhaps open up possibilities for creating more "natural" patterns of thought and feeling in the world. In the west, they tend to equate the heart with the seat of the emotions only and separate it from the "rational" mind. In eastern traditions, the heart is more than this, it is a whole reality which in it's true state, contains the mind. It is critical in bringing balance and structure to life. It is not easy to bring a sense of depth and balance to life. To achieve this, the presence of the heart is necessary.
🍓🍒Richard Jefferies' heart led him to the fields and woods, to the barks of clear streams where the sunlight sparkled and the breeze rustled the leaves above. "... to drink deeply once more at the fresh fountain of life. An inspiration - a long deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart." In this quote, Jefferies immediately links thought to the heart. Natural thought is what he seeks: thought which arises from sensitive contact with nature, not the type that is concerned with information, conventional learning, projects, concepts and all the minutiae of daily life.
💕💓 The heart is the key to unlocking this almost limitless potential of the "inner mind", but it has to awaken to it. "By looking at this blue hill line, this dormant power within the mind becomes partly visible; the heart wakes up to it." Jefferies seeking this natural, "pure" thought from the elements of nature, or any particular one of them. "Drinking the lucid water, clear as light itself in solution, I absorbed the beauty and purity of it. I drank the thought of the element..." The heart is where this desire comes from: it is self desire. Jefferies is as interested in the happiness of the human race and the realization of love as anyone who has ever put pen to paper.
🍁🍊 "I hope succeeding generations will be able to be ideal. I hope that nine-tenths of their time will be leisure time, that they may enjoy their days, and the eartg and the beauty of this world; that they may rest by the sea and dream; that they may dance and sing and eat and drink. I will work towards that end with all my heart." The development of a stronger, healthier body and the expansion of the mind to it's full potential would be a natural consequence of an awakened heart, conscious of the ideal life which he terms "soul-life."
🌸🍇 "Steeped in flower and pollen to the music of bees and birds, the stream of the atmosphere became a living thing. It was life to breath it, for the air itself was life. The strength of the earth went up through the leaves into the wind. Feed thus on the food of the Immortals, the heart opened to the width and depth of the summer-to the broad horizon afar, down to the minutest creature in the grass, up to the highest swallow." The imaginative power of the heart suddenly bursts into the open when he sees a June rose.🌷🌷🌷 Love begins with beauty and the natural awakening of the imagination. Heart awakeness is all that is required for this shift in consciousness. For Jefferies, the Greek ideal of perfection of both mind and body was a continual inspiration, permeating his autobiography, novels and many essays.
"How willingly I would strew the paths of all with flowers, how beautiful a delight to make the world joyous! The song should never be silent, the dance never still, the laugh should sound like water which runs for ever."
-"The Story of my Heart"💟
💖The heart is "The Sacred Temple of Life." It is the seat of intuitive knowledge and thought, as well as the link between the "physical" and "spiritual." All that we see in this world is made possible by God so it is right to stay committed and rest our hearts to him. Our relationship with God should be steady and true.💕 In many relationships, there are broken marriages, broken families, unwanted pregnancies and relationships that wind up. All these because we took God for granted and doesn't remember him despite his goodness. If I would contemplate in my own frickleness, I would think that God is leading me to stay with Him. He wants me to show often because there are so many things to discuss with for me to be able to live an entirely Christian life. Living a Godly life has no doubts and worries because He is perfect. We just have to be more sensitive in his words and the things he kept on reminding as we continue to stay and enjoy this world. There is no problem that cannot be solved. Anybody can make the right decision because God rests in our hearts - always remember that! 😇🙏
