A Heart that Stays…

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Do your hearing

not with your ears

but with your mind.

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Do your thinking

not with your mind

but with your soul.

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Let the hearing stay with the ears.

Let the thinking stay with the mind.

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But what, then, of the soul?

Let it become passively responsive to externals.

That negative state is a staying of the heart.

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Consider a window…

Through it an empty room

becomes bright with scenery

but the landscape stays without.