Responsibilities of the Heart: Connectivity & Flow

I would ask that you think about something. According to quantum mechnics, there’s a thing called entanglement: A particle in one place will effect another particle in a different location. The distance between the 2 particles can be quite significant. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance”. He didn’t like it much and I think the reason he didn’t was because the physical evidence defied what his senses told him: There is distance and separateness between things, however the building blocks of everything said otherwise. In fact, they said everything was touching. So everything “built” in the universe is touching everything else – that means you and I.

Here’s something else: Everything is also in motion at all times, even when it reaches a still point because a still point is a state that is passed through. Now what happens when one part of the whole refuses to keep moving? Remember, everything is touching so one part not moving as it needs to, is like being the proverbial wrench thrown into the works. The longer it won’t move as it should, the more difficult things become for the whole. Everybody we see and everybody we don’t, we are touching. When we refuse to move, the best we can expect is backward motion. However, the whole wants to move forward, so the whole ends up fighting itself because WE are fighting the whole. This is the meaning of, “the responsibility of being careful with another’s heart”.

So here’s what we have to ask ourselves: Why is it so hard to really see the people around us? What is so hard about truly listening to people when they talk to us? How hard is it to genuinely smile whenever we see someone? These are part of human motion. Consider the etymology (word origin) of emotion:

Emotion: 1579, “a (physical) moving, stirring, agitation”, from M.Fr. emotion, from O.Fr. emouvoir “stir up”, from L. emovere “move out, remove, agitate”, from ex- “out” + movere “to move”. from the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Those questions have become so hard because most people have become numb to some degree. People are numb because they believe their trust has been betrayed. Sometimes this is real and sometimes it’s only imagined. But if we believe it, it makes no difference. Betrayal is betrayal and what do human beings do when they believe they have suffered this? They try to protect themselves, in this case because it’s an internal experience, by creating walls around their hearts. They believe they’re learning and this is life, but in reality, it is little more than hiding and withdrawal from life.