“I change my mind.”
“I have a change of heart.”
Why are these two conditions stated differently? It seems the mind is being controlled by us, as we are able to select from whatever thoughts and ideas that it has formulated to make a decision. But the heart! The heart “sees” and decides, and the change has already happened before we know it. I think that’s why we say follow your heart and never follow your mind.
The heart is a pure source. Like the right peg in the right hole, when they are engaged a new dimension opens up. The heart declares. It doesn’t provide information or analysis. It doesn’t compare and contrast. All that is the work of the mind. Perhaps that is why the mind is in constant conflict.
It is a matter of trust when following the heart. Life will be different, not better or worse; and it will be true—at least for the moment.
Thought and feeling, feeling and thought, one sets direction, the other sets worth. Mann stated in “Death in Venice”, “To wholly merge thought with feeling, to wholly merge feeling with thought; these are the artist’s greatest joys.” I don’t see any great difference between them, the heart and mind. They are facets of the same gem, the psyche (from the nutritive to the intuitive). A thought should always be attended by a feeling and vice versa: a feeling without a thought is directionless; a thought without a feeling is impotent. I think the goal should always be intuition, the true insight derived by the imaginative practice of thought and feeling.