Poetry: The power of the mind
@innertalks (21024)
Australia
October 6, 2022 6:35pm CST
The mind can have two powers,
one negative, one positive,
but the heart has only one power, love.
The heart must rule the mind,
otherwise, events decide which power,
your mind will work from.
Listen harder to life,
and do not let your mind side against you.
Grow into the enormous power of love,
and listen to the listening of God above.
Quieten your mind by allowing it to be quiet,
disperse the thoughts of negativity, alive.
Passionate living involves a life of passion.
Get out into life,
and do not let one part imprison you.
Reach into the love, by reaching past the pain.
Let life remain as it is, and do not resist its call.
Life follows love, when the mind is not interfering.
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Your face often reveals the state of your mind, but your heart only reveals love, when you live from love instead.
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9 responses
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
7 Oct 22
Yes, thanks, hard to do all of the time though, but we should always try to do so.
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
8 Oct 22
@RubyHawk Yes, and we often have to live with the consequences of our decisions too.
@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
8 Oct 22
@innertalks It’s very hard to do and often we have to live with it.
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@AngelicOne (80)
• Jamaica
7 Oct 22
I like this. It actually lifted my spirit. Thank you
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@RebeccasFarm (86754)
• United States
8 Oct 22
I agree with this. Bitterness can destroy your life.
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
9 Oct 22
Yes, bitterness, resentment, and resistance, can cause much angst in one's life.
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
7 Oct 22
Yes, we do need to recognise that the advice is coming from our hearts though, as at times, our mind can try to fool us, at sometimes, a low point in our lives.
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
8 Oct 22
So do l, and then our thoughts can grip, and torture us, at times too.
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
9 Oct 22
@CarolDM Yes, it is not a good place, as it often spirals you down into hopelessness feelings then too.
We need to throw aside possible "what if"scenarios, and just deal with what is.
@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
8 Oct 22
@innertalks I have been held captive by my own grips many times. Not a good place to be. I hope not to return there any time soon. Thank you for your words here.
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
13 Oct 22
No, not originally, unless it becomes bad, through being coloured over by the mind.
@kanuck1 (4394)
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19 Oct 22
@innertalks Any scriptures that express that point of view that you can share?
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
19 Oct 22
@kanuck1 Not really, but keeping our mind on God, as well as our heart must be good for us, l think.
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
7 Oct 22
I think trying to think positive is more beneficial to us, that what negative thoughts, ever are.
@Shiva49 (26202)
• Singapore
7 Oct 22
I think the mind is more like a feeler making sense of the physical world around us.
But our life should be driven by the heart which is not corrupted by the vicissitudes of daily lives.
It is a struggle though as the physical world has challenges too and one should be aware of the pitfalls that can drag us down.
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
8 Oct 22
Yes, many things can weigh us down, and so bring extra problems into our lives. We should allow our heart to lift us above our problems, but it's hard to do.
@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
9 Oct 22
@Shiva49 I like the Zen idea of just staying in the moment, awarely: we don't fight with fires not yet lit then.
@Shiva49 (26202)
• Singapore
8 Oct 22
@innertalks Yes, we are told to be realistic and street-smart to get ahead in this world of ours.
Otherwise, we are deemed to be losers and impractical.
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