“This is what it means to say the heart is more than a pumping machine. It is the most sophisticated instrument you possess — more sensitive than any technology, more precise than any measurement, capable of perceiving what no instrument can detect: the presence of the sacred, the movement of grace, the quiet unmistakable knowing that you are held, guided, accompanied. But like any instrument of precision, it requires care. It requires attention. It requires that we take seriously the things that affect its clarity — the resentments we carry, the pride we protect, the distractions we indulge, the malice we allow to sit unexamined in its corners. A neglected instrument drifts. It loses its calibration. It still functions — the heart still beats, life still continues — but something essential in its capacity for perception diminishes. Quietly. Gradually. Until one day we look up and realize we have been living in a kind of spiritual dullness so familiar we stopped noticing it was there.”
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From The Core: The Heart, the Light, and the Life You Were Meant to Live
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