The Little Devil Within
every single one of us is a devil inside
Never trust a liar. Even though they always trust themselves.
This Stupid Heart
Untrusted
Failure
Of an
Organ
Power over
Brain and
Body
Unfairly designed
To inhibit
Reason and
Logic
While providing
The motivation
For life
Source of greatest
Joy and happinesses
Without equal
Ask Icarus,
He
Knows.
Above all
Else
Protect
Your
Traitorous
Heart.
It is your greatest ally,
Your fire,
Your sail.
And it's power is infinite.
As are you.
Mister Spock, I think, would approve of this essay.
What a curious thing our heart is. The Bible calls it treacherous, as in untrustworthy. But the catalog of music in which I have bathed wants me to listen to the happy little voice, follow it, trust it like it’s a compass. And I guess it kind of is. But the things it guides me to are not usually the course of wisdom. They are the places of momentary electricity, thrills, and the effervescence of life. Good in moderation, no doubt. But our hearts seem blind to more than a few moments into the future at any given time. I suppose that is why we are endowed with the sense of reason, as represented by our mind. We should feel passion and desire, but we have to temper and guide them with love, justice, wisdom, and kindness.
There is no place in happiness for selfish indulgence. Not real, lasting happiness.
The irony? That when I discover those moments of greatest fulfillment and generosity. I just happen to find myself laughing with someone I love and who loves me and we are working should-to-shoulder to accomplish something for the greater good — the heart enhances that experience and makes the moment greater than the sums of it’s parts. This is why no moment is as golden in its experience as it is in memory.
What a contradiction we are. We think (well, we are told anyway) absolute freedom means absolute happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment. But in truth, the more we restrict our actions and thinking to what is best for everyone, the better it is for us personally. More happiness in giving and all.
Among the truest idioms is: the absence of rules is the enemy of art.
And isn’t living our life an art? Relationships, masterpieces to be admired. Love, an oeuvre to be chipped and revealed from the marble slab of the soul over the course of our lives?
We NEED the rules of goodness and kindness, patience, self-control and joy in order to complete a masterwork worthy of the life we have been given. It is only by restricting that figurative organ of impulse that we truly become all that we can and should be. The perfect state of man is when he reaches his intended purpose to the fullest degree. Our hearts help us to reach that aspiration by fueling our zest for living. But unless we bend that to the will of good, they instead lead us down a dark path of thoughtless passion that benefits no one.
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”
Edmond Dantés comment after, in obscurity, saving Msr Morrel and his family.
There is a rock band in my soul
Paul: ‘For I am the least of the apostles,+ and I am not worthy of being called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God’
‘She makes me feel like sunshine when she says my name.’ Words are life for me, if you give me kindness through words, I am yours heart and soul.
It is Key. That is Key. We are Key. See their positive qualities. Even monsters.
Boy was BFGW 19 forgettable. This stub is my only memory of it.
“You may, in time, find that having a thing is not so as desirable a circumstance as wanting a thing.” – Mister Spock
Book #62 – What Is The Job – Page 24 – A Being In The Darkness; Awesome mix 62.
Once, riding the rail in Ghana, I met a giraffe and I asked him, ‘why are you so tall?’ Chewing the acacia leaves, he said to me in a ponderous voice, ‘Why is the world so short?’
You Must Kill the Bull That leads the heard astray. When you set me free, the loss became greater still.
This concludes today’s lesson. Be and do good. Enjoy your heart, but be wary of it’s leadership.
What do you think Mister Spock would say?