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What are the Arts of the heart ?

Submitted by Toke Moller on October 8, 2006 - 14:40.

What are the gifts of the Arts of the heart ?

 
This question attracts me as I feel that praticing these arts will be helpful 

and influence whatever we do.... at home, at work or travelling the world.

Some of the practices that I have found works, are: stillness - grounding - awareness - surrender ......

what  are your thoughts and experience ?

- toke 

arts of the heart

Submitted by Rik Verschueren on November 3, 2006 - 12:25.

What are the arts of the heart?
A heart can be opened or closed.
A person can be centered or unbalanced.
No good or bad with that, if we only could handle it.

What should we handle it for?
For our own wellness.
For the welness of all beings.
No first or second in this,
If we only realised that the one needs the other.

How can we focus on wellness?
We can bring in our unique individual contribution.
We can go beyond ego.
Both can make it happen and us happy, if we only could trust and surrender.

What should we trust?
To believe, when we surrender, the best will of the chaos of coöperating servers,
Out of the stillness that's shared A new optimum will emerge,
If we only keep fully "aware'.

How to keep fully aware?
Be honest with sense(s) and meaning.
Accept all what you feel, and know, and want, and just leave it,
Openess and courage; Are the paths to the truth.

What does the heart care about truth?
It loves it! And it makes love with it!
Be surprised by the wonderfull manifestions love can bring, again and again and again.
The gift of the art of the heart is, probably, to be moved into that beneficient flow, and moving the others around you.