Short story: The power of words used by our heart is a greater power than those used by our minds

Yes, most everyone likes to hear the sweet words of love spoken to themselves. I do too. We can tell when words are being spoken from love, and have sincere love behind them. We feel it, the love, in our own hearts too, coming to us from their hearts. Love touches us like nothing else can. This is why love talks are called heart-to-heart conversations.

Agreed. The nonverbals are as important as the words.

@TheHorse Yes, even the scholars tell us that. Words are only a small percentage of the message, around 10 percent only, or so, and the rest of the message is being received, and interpreted, by the nonverbals, body language, tone of voice, etc. etc. etc.

@innertalks Same as the Old Testament.The heart, and faith, are important

@TheHorse Yes, our heart and our faith usually require a good connection to our soul, and to God, to be real in us too. If we try to develop faith with just our minds, this usually will not work, as our thoughts will throw up many a doubt to swamp this faith that is being held just in our minds, without the extra strengthening of it being held in our hearts too.

There must be a difference, l think. Our minds, we use to think over things with, to process thoughts. Our hearts, we usually feel the truth of things with as a deep touching feeling. The Christian Bible tells us, though, to love God, with our whole heart, our soul, and our mind, so they must be different parts of ourselves.

Thanks, siva. You make an interesting point there. Hurtful words hurt, and can leave an indelible impression in us, sometimes for a long time too. Now, loving words touch our hearts, but hurting words hurt us, seemingly in our hearts too. Is this true, does the hurt affect our soul, our heart, or just our mind, and body, though? I think that love can only touch another person's heart, when it comes from another heart. Pseudo love from the mind, or body alone, never touches that deeply, and hurting words cannot come from the heart of love, but come from a distorted (of love) perception, held in the mind, and so these words affect the body, and mind, of others, but when that person (being hurt) also loves the hurter, the hurt reaches past their mind, and body, and they feel a pinge ( my own combo invented word meaning: a ping twinged, or a twinge pinched, or a pinchlike twinge pinging in us) of pain, sometimes more, in their heart, as love feels all things, pain, too, and it lets you know how you are affected by non-love in that way too.

@Shiva49 The Catholic church has a prayer that they pray to God, asking him to just say the word, and their soul will be healed. If this idea is right, it means that even our soul can be hurt, setback, by non-love pounding into it from others, and from our own selves, too. Perhaps, some hurts, are not just skin deep then, but penetrate right to the very core of who we are, sometimes too. We need to keep our love shield up, to deflect these hurts with understanding, and compassion, rather than our throwing a few barbs into the mix ourselves. Yes, we need to move on, keeping moving forwards, rather than being dragged down, and back, with the pain of a painful hurt, digging deep into us, when a loved one cuts us with the sharper edge of their tongues.

@innertalks Thanks Steve. Though I like to forget and forgive hurtful words and deeds, they tend to replay in me from time to time. That makes me guarded too with what I say and do. I think our soul makes a note of all goings on and that should also have an impact on our further journey. Hurtful words can arise even from our dear ones. In such cases, I readily move on as they don't really represent them. They could be hurting inside from time to time as they are humans after all. Yes, those who had got carried away to indulge in such will in time make up for it as they realize it was not on. They will know the pain that they had inflicted.

Who is the you that is looking, though? Are you looking with your heart, your mind, or your soul? To our mind, most spiritual concepts are vague. Knowing from your heart does not require words. It is more just a deep feeling of connection to God, via faith. Words are formed through the spirit talking/guiding us through our heart. So, words can come from both our minds, and our hearts, but when they come from our hearts, they have love and truth behind them, instead of ego, and our own desires instead. We can say, "I love you," from both our hearts, and our minds, then. Coming from our hearts, though, some part of the other person can feel this heart-felt, sincere, genuine, love and truth-based communication, whereas if it comes from our mind alone, it might just appear to someone as a half-baked concept of ours, cooked up by our minds, as a way of living, but with little real truth in it at all, just a way of us beating our chest, proudly with our own ideas to them, instead of us speaking out with real truth, and with God's guiding love, behind the formed words too.

@innertalks In short, words come from the heart is lasting while that comes from the mind is short-lived.

@Nakitakona Yes, I would agree with that. Heart-to-heart contact touches us, and that touch lasts a long time afterwards within us.

Thanks. I am glad that you agreed with my ideas.

@Dreamerby This is a fiction short story, that l wrote, and l just invented that Rabbi's name, so, if he really exists, that is a coincidence.

@innertalks Woww I am fooled