Love is to the heart as knowledge and wisdom is to the mind
The heart and mind are inseperable, for who can seperate
What the mind knows and the heart wills?
Such a seperation is like the seperation of love and action
One's actions show what is in one's heart,
Whether it be good or whether it be ill intended
The righteous heart wills what the mind knows is right
But a wicked heart wills what the mind knows is wrong.
Love, it is of the heart. And the heart cannot be seperated from the mind.
Love is the meeting of two minds, there is a connection.
This connection of the minds affect the heart in such a way
That it neither can be denied nor resisted.
What is love? Few of our generation (or any other)
Has known the full and complex, yet simple, answer to this question.
Love is felt in the heart, realized in the mind
And shown in the physical action and deed
9/24/07
Author notes
This was kind of inspired by the movie "Shakespeare In Love". There's not really any noticeable relation between the movie and this poem, there was just something said at the beginning that got me to thinking.
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Comments
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A lovely piece filled with wisdom. thanks for the great entry
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you are a wise teacher ...
guiding us not only to the heart, where love resides, and the mind where wisdom is realized, but showing us the importance of the balance between both ... with both wings, the bird flies ... with both qualities developped, our actions will be dharmic ...
thank you so much for this precious reminder,
maa
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Very thought provoking write! Quite a bit of logic to this; makes love actually make sense! I loved the last stanza the most, the way it comes all together. Yes, this portrays a very well-learned, poetic synopsis of such a complicated phenomena; love. It has almost a scholarly feel to it, nearly biblical in its tone. I really liked this; quite true! Grand write!
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