The heart is wiser then the intellect
This is what I read in Today's Fortune in orkut. I have always loved this idea. Of course I came across- and may be thought- this idea not in this form (words) but in some other form each time.
Why do I like this idea?
Yes, because I find it insightful. And secondly because it's little bit tricky. A superficial - ashamedly superficial- analysis of the idea; and you will think that it's meaningless. After all nothing like heart exists. I mean you don't think from heart, but brain-mind. The purpose of heart is just to maintain the pressure gradient to continue the inflow and outflow of blood. So the idea is a poetic one, and so meaningless.
But, now in poetry, When do we have said things directly. Obviousness is poison for poetry. Poets prefer to walk around the idea, always almost reaching it, but never reaching it. Touching it for a moment, but then suddenly again getting lost in the labyrinth of words all over again. They don't prefer short walk, they go for long walk. They, like the lover in a song by Norah Jones, always take the long way home.
Now whenever somebody suggests us to think from heart. He/She doesn't mean the heart; of course you can not think from heart. What he means by heart is unconscious mind, intuition- I know I am writing a too obvious thing but anyway. Our unconscious mind is way wiser than our conscious mind. Of course I can write a lot on why our intuition is wiser than our intellect. But due to shortage of time, and importantly because I am a slow write I would prefer not to write a word on that. It's good to let something be unsaid. Iceberg Principle of Hemingway.
So my take on this is that it's very unintellectual of you to believe on your intellect. Always go by what your gut feeling says. Go by your feelings not by what your mind, intellect, logic can justify. Now at the end, let me quote somebody who understood the puzzle of human mind better than most of us, Sigmund Freud: In small matters trust your mind but in big one trust your heart.
Why do I like this idea?
Yes, because I find it insightful. And secondly because it's little bit tricky. A superficial - ashamedly superficial- analysis of the idea; and you will think that it's meaningless. After all nothing like heart exists. I mean you don't think from heart, but brain-mind. The purpose of heart is just to maintain the pressure gradient to continue the inflow and outflow of blood. So the idea is a poetic one, and so meaningless.
But, now in poetry, When do we have said things directly. Obviousness is poison for poetry. Poets prefer to walk around the idea, always almost reaching it, but never reaching it. Touching it for a moment, but then suddenly again getting lost in the labyrinth of words all over again. They don't prefer short walk, they go for long walk. They, like the lover in a song by Norah Jones, always take the long way home.
Now whenever somebody suggests us to think from heart. He/She doesn't mean the heart; of course you can not think from heart. What he means by heart is unconscious mind, intuition- I know I am writing a too obvious thing but anyway. Our unconscious mind is way wiser than our conscious mind. Of course I can write a lot on why our intuition is wiser than our intellect. But due to shortage of time, and importantly because I am a slow write I would prefer not to write a word on that. It's good to let something be unsaid. Iceberg Principle of Hemingway.
So my take on this is that it's very unintellectual of you to believe on your intellect. Always go by what your gut feeling says. Go by your feelings not by what your mind, intellect, logic can justify. Now at the end, let me quote somebody who understood the puzzle of human mind better than most of us, Sigmund Freud: In small matters trust your mind but in big one trust your heart.
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