Our Minds or Our Hearts?

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It’s said, “Put a bit of mind on your heart until it’s straight, put a bit of emotion on your mind until it softens.” But how’s the way to it? How much is this “little”?

Between our minds and our hearts is a struggle that begins and never ends. You (with your mind, heart, and yourself) come out losing, regardless of the victor. Either lose your principles and logic or lose your happiness and passion. The mind is the master of the assets of our lives, and we control our actions and decisions with it. We think and decide, we accomplish and create, we build and make, as we destroy and ruin, we write and read — this is for what it was created and for what it must be employed.

The heart is the master of feelings and emotions, our adviser, with which we love and dislike. We grieve and rejoice, with which we feel and forget. It is the first and last controller in the world of our sensations, for which it is created and for which it must be employed.

But when the mind wants what the heart rejects, or the heart wants what the mind doesn’t, then it starts a war that is necessary between our minds and our hearts. A war that we have…