Daily Wisdom Post: Heart Love
In reaching for the awakening of love, we do well to bear in mind the teaching of mystical master Menachem Mendel of Kutz. Writing in eastern Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century he offers an original deeply resonant re-reading of a biblical myth text. “These words which I command you this day should be on your hearts.” How do words sit on a heart? Do they not either enter in or stay outside? What could it mean to have words sit “on the heart?” Answers the master, ‘When dealing in issues of heart-lev-love — one cannot force the heart’s opening.’ Love is mystery — the word mystery deriving originally from the Hebrew word Seter — meaning secret. The greatest secret, the most wondrous mystery, is the openings and closings of the heart. ‘The best we can hope to do – and that is alot – is to place our words on the heart–and when the heart opens the words fall in.’
The Erotic and the Holy
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