11/27

Relinquish your pride, mind—

you are not invulnerable from mistakes,

you are not unassailable by emotion,

you are not separate from your heart.

What good are directions, what use are coordinates to a sailor,

if the sea beneath him remains in perpetual unrest?

if the winds that push him along vacillate by the minute?

Your heart is as much a part of you as your mind.

For without a heart, there is nothing to grasp the meaning that lay in the liminal space of the matter and energy that rushes between our eyes and within our soul.

And without a mind, there is nothing to guide it along—no light to even begin to navigate a world shrouded in a suffocating darkness and oppressive fog.

As you should not balk at the nature of the universe,

as you should not kick against fate and the weight of circumstances,

you should neither lay siege against the heart.

Stop fighting. And stop thinking that this is about appeasement or about compromise.

This is not about the mind.

And this is not about the heart.

This is about you.