Waking the Heart

The pathway towards awakening wends its way through the depths of our hearts. But our glimpses of heart are fleeting. Join us to explore how to wake the heart and keep it open, through the powerful avenues of poetry, music, imagery and text.

If one learns to listen to heart, it will tell one things so clearly—what must be done, what must not be done, the real nature of people and places and things. Only it speaks so quietly, so subtly, and immediately a flood of reactions, explanations, excuses, theories have swamped it, and we do not even recognise it speak. Only listening carefully to what it wants to say, and remaining still until it has spoken, one cannot really do the wrong thing.
~ Rodney Collin, from The Theory of Conscious Harmony, Chapter on Heart

Jennie Hansen is a professional musician and writer who has studied philosophy for 22 years and has been a Director of the Los Angeles Center of the Academy.

Banner Image: Mary Magdalene by He Qi (c.2012)

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