Heart Center

• Sometimes life can knock you around. Spiritually speaking we recognize when we are not grounded because it is easy to be disturbed – be it physically, mentally or emotionally. When we are grounded or centered we are present to a condition of relaxed and effortless balance. Situated within any center is found inherent stability and at its core a pinpoint of perfect balance. This can be contrasted to finding oneself off center and ungrounded where external influences easily perturb us and much energy is needed just to metaphorically stay upright. The essence of the heart center is therefore twofold.  It includes the compassionate, feeling nature of our being but one that emanates from a central core whose innate nature contains the gifts of balance and stability. It maintains poise even in the midst of turmoil allowing our thoughts and feelings to be harmoniously blended into expressions of wisdom. Whatever comes forth from the heart center has a kind of purity and selfless character. It does not require guarding to ward off worldly disturbances and because of that it is only out of the heart center that we can express love in an unconditioned and undefended way. It is good to be grounded. Better still is to be grounded or centered in one’s heart.
• Heart Center is the gateway through which I shift to the present moment, to compassion, loving kindness, and love for all sentient beings including my own humanity. It is that consciousness which is limitless in capacity for accepting “what is” with equanimity, to see the world with “soft eyes.”
• Heart Center—when you can distinguishing yourself from the noise within, the never ending chatter of commentary, judgement, assessment, agreement, disagreement, wanting, resisting, excluding, and brutality, where you find yourself is a quiet place of nothing, and in that space of nothing, the noise settles down. It gets really quiet inside.  There is nothing to change or resist—fix or alter. In that space, where everything is perfect as it is, in the quiet, there you find your heart center where God put your true eyes and ears, where you see only the expression of Being.
• If I were an architect I could draw the plans to this great shrine called The Heart Center. This Holy place with glass elevators that move vertically up and down, opening to expanses on every level from the highest to the lowest with no preference for one from the other and each floor greets you with Yes. The stillness at The Center has an overflowing fountain, outpouring to all who enter. The Sun itself shines down on this fountain and the rays of light fan out in all directions, honoring all religions, cultures and paths and the truths and limitations inherent to each. Yes.

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