The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. —Yeats

 

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The Heart is the center of the Self and the Self is the center of centers. Just as the subtle force of electricity travels through wires and does many wonderful things, so too the Heart imparts sentience to the senses.

—Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. 

All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.


—Sri Aurobindo

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Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart. 
Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes 
Lives in the Self. This is the Source of Love 
And may be known through love but not through thought.
This is the goal of life. 

Here are woven heaven and earth, 
Mind and body. Realize this as the One 
Behind the many and stop all vain talk. 
This is the bridge from death to deathless life. 

Where all the nerves meet like spokes in a wheel, 
There dwells the One behind the many. 
Meditate upon This in the mantram. 
This is the guide from death to deathless life. 

This Source of Love is before and behind.
It extends to the right and to the left.
It extends above; it extends below.
There is no one here but the This.
This alone is; in truth, This alone is.


—The Mundaka Upanishad

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