In this talk, Zach explores what it means to shift our darshan, or worldview, to see through the heart. While the mind is logical and narrow, the heart is paradoxical and open. By seeing through the heart, we can live and experience the world in a completely new way.
Intro poem, “What Are We?” is part of the 108 Savasana Poems collection, click here to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/108-Savasana-Poems-Blissful-Words/dp/1092978712/
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
“The Lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond.
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
with it own ageless eyes,
One
One Love
One Light
One God
One
The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One.”
– Rumi
“The specific forms that love take in our lives arise and pass in time,
for this is the way of form. Time is the great dissolver.
But love itself is that which never comes and goes.
We never know what form love will choose to take in the future,
for there is no love in the future. Love is only now.
But it can take a cleansing of perception to see through the veil,
behind the scenes where love is always at work…
giving birth to one of its forms, one of its children,
while recycling and dissolving another.
If we become too fused with a specific form we believe
we need love to take—a particular person or way
of finding purpose and meaning—our heart will inevitably
break when love obliterates that form for something new,
which it always will. This shattering is the great gift of form,
evidence not of error and mistake,
but of wholeness and profound compassion.
This dissolution and reorganization is a special kind of grace
that the conventional mind struggles to know.
But the heart knows. The body knows.”
– Matt Licata, A Healing Space
“The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.”
-Swami Prabhavananda
“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.”
– Haruki Murakami
