The experience of suffering is the result of an inner conflict between the ultimate desires of the Heart and the dysfunctional mind; The Heart’s desire for us to expand, to fully attune ourselves to its subtle communication and to experience inner freedom (or ‘joy’), and the dysfunctional mind’s desire for us to contract, to doubt all communication from the Heart and to experience mental security (which we call ‘knowledge’).

Experiencing mental security and experiencing inner freedom are mutually exclusive – each one excludes the other. By deriving our sense of security from the acquisition of knowledge, money and possessions we sacrifice the simple yet profound experience of peace that comes from being connected with our own heart, and by strengthening the connection with our heart we end our hungry pursuit of all that can be acquired and we experience greater freedom.

Our compulsion to continually interpret the fluid experience of life into ‘knowledge’ for the dysfunctional mind to hold on to is born from a deep fear; the fear of the pain that life will inflict upon us if we fully relax our heart and completely re-integrate ourselves with our highly sensitive intuitive nature. The fear of fully feeling – and the contraction this causes in our entire being – is what keeps us isolated in thought and prevents us from resting in the inner realm of the Heart, which is our true home.

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