Art by Alex Grey, entitled,
Heart Consciousness
In her book, Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Sydney Owenson observes:
Political philosophy is an extension of the mind’s eye to the whole great scale of civil society, and demonstrating the close-linked dependencies of its remotest parts, affords to the benevolence of the human heart, and the comprehension of the human understanding, a social system, gratifying to the feelings of the one, and ennobling to the faculties of the other. (33)
The human heart and 'comprehension of understanding,' are two distinct entities, for the heart, aside from its organic characteristics, contains the very essence of human perceptions.
In contrast, comprehension of understanding involves the assimilation of intelligence and critical analysis as they interact with the psycho-physiological structure to form a wondrous flow of human affability.
Harmony
One heart ~
beating strong
beating true
sings
One song ~
through melodies
sublime
envelops
Two lives ~
circuitous,
refined
coalesce
Two souls ~
ennobled
by the One.
© Jeanne I. Lakatos
